{"id":10962,"date":"2023-05-16T01:18:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:13:51","slug":"sikkim-statehood-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sikkim-statehood-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikkim Statehood day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the day:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sikkim commemorates its statehood day annually <strong>on May 16<\/strong> to acknowledge its integration with India and its emergence as the <strong>22nd state in the country in 1975.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The state of Sikkim was formed by the <strong>36th Amendment of the Constitution<\/strong> of India in 1975.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Brief history of Sikkim:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In the <strong>17th century, the Namgyal dynasty<\/strong> formed the Kingdom of Sikkim. The kingdom was made a <strong>protectorate of the British Empire in 1890<\/strong> but the <strong>dynasty continued to function under the Chogyal<\/strong> (Buddhist priest-kings).<\/li>\n<li>After India\u2019s independence, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to continue the kingdom\u2019s unique protectorate status. India oversaw Sikkim\u2019s external relations, defence, diplomacy, and communications but otherwise preserved its administrative independence.<\/li>\n<li>In order to <strong>enable constitutional rule<\/strong> under the Namgyal rule, a <strong>state council was established in 1953. <\/strong>After around two decades a <strong>people\u2019s agitation against the monarchy in 1973<\/strong> was led by former Sikkim Council member <strong>Kazi Lhendup Dorji.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>After riots broke out in front of the Chogyal\u2019s palace in <strong>1973,<\/strong> the Chogyal formally requested security from India and this led to <strong>the kingdom signing a contract with India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In 1974 a new constitution was adopted in the state, which restricted Chogyal to a titular post. In 1974, The Indian government changed <strong>Sikkim\u2019s status to \u201cassociated state<\/strong>\u201d and gave it one seat each in <strong>the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In <strong>1975,<\/strong> The Sikkim Prime Minister requested that Sikkim become a state of India in a petition to the Indian Parliament thus Sikkim became a state in India, and the monarchy was abolished on May 16.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who is the founder of Namgyal dynasty?<\/h3>\n<p>Bhagan was described as warlike, and established the Namgyal dynasty in 1460 after he formed an alliance with the people of Leh and dethroned the Maryul king Lodr\u00f6 Chokden (Blo-gros-mc&#8217;og-ldan) and his brothers Dr\u00fcnpa Aliand Lapten Dargy\u00e9 (Slab-bstan-dar-rgyas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=President%2c-Vice-President-greet-people-of-Sikkim-on-their-Statehood-day&amp;id=460983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>President, Vice President greet people of Sikkim on their Statehood day<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sikkim Prime Minister requested that Sikkim become a state of India in a petition to the Indian Parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}