Campaigning for simultaneous polls to 32 Assembly seats as well as the lone Lok Sabha seat in Sikkim ended at 5 pm on Tuesday.
The polling will be held on April 11 next.
Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) president and chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling addressed an impressive 'Vijay Sankalp Rally' at Jorethang in his native district, South Sikkim where he extorted the gathering to return his party to power for a sixth successive term to ensure peace and security in Sikkim.
The opposition Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) president P S Golay and Hamro Sikkim Party (HSP) working president Bhaichung Bhutia also held election meetings to wind up two-week long campaigning.
While the SDF and HSP have promised to implement the Universal Basic Income to all people in Sikkim, the SKM has pledged to provide government jobs to all unemployed people within 100 days of the party coming to power.
Those who could not be given given government jobs immediately will get a subsistence allowance of Rs 10,000 per month till for the time being.
There are 150 candidates in fray on 32 Assembly seats, while a total of eleven candidates are in contest on the lone Lok Sabha seat in Sikkim
Among prominent candidates, Chamling, who is seeking a record eighth successive term as an MLA, is contesting from two assembly seats - Poklok-Kamrang and Namchi-Singhithang, Bhaichung Bhutia has entered into fray from two assembly seats as well, including Gangtok, reserved seat for the indigenous Bhutia-Lepcha communities.
There are 4,32,306 voters comprising 2,20,305 male and 2,12,001 female.
Of the total voters in Sikkim, 30,480 are first-time voters, while 2,042 voters have registered themselves as the People with Disabilities (PWD) Sikkim's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ravindra Telang told reporters.
There will be a total of 567 polling stations in Sikkim of which 120 have been identified as critical polling stations to be manned by the Centre Para Military forces on the polling day, the CEO said.
He said that 3,600 polling personnel and 4,000 security men, including 10 companies of SSB, have been deployed for the polling on April 11 next.
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