Gangtok, July 12: A prominent pro-democracy leader and a former minister of Sikkim Ram Chandra Poudyal(80) has gone missing since July 7.
On July 7, Poudyal left his residence at Chota Singtam in Pakyong district around 9 am. to meet his relatives and promised to return by afternoon.
“He was wearing a light blue kurta with white pyjama and a Nepali topi and was carrying a red umbrella and a black walking stick when he left home,” said a relative of Poudyal.
Sikkim police have constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to trace the missing person and announced a cash reward for any lead in the case.
Poudyal had actively participated in the 1973 “democracy movement” of Sikkim and gone on a seven-day fast in Gangtok.
Poudyal has been the deputy speaker of the assembly from 1975 to 1977 and later became a cabinet minister of forest and land and land reforms department.
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