Background
Nar Bahadur Bhandari was born on 5 October 1940 in Malbasay village, near Soreng, West Sikkim.
politician member of the Lok Sabha
Nar Bahadur Bhandari was born on 5 October 1940 in Malbasay village, near Soreng, West Sikkim.
He completed his Bachelor degree from Darjeeling Government College and worked as a school teacher for some years before joining politics.
Bhandari founded the Sikkim Janata Parishad in 1977. In 1984, Bhandari dissolved the Sikkim Janata Parishad and formed a new party called Sikkim Sangram Parishad. In 1989, Sikkim Sangram Parishad returned to power by winning the assembly elections.
In 1994, Bhandari lost the vote of confidence in the state assembly and he resigned as chief minister.
In 1994, Bhandari"s party Sikkim Sangram Parishad lost the assembly elections to Pawan Kumar Chamling-led Sikkim Democratic Front. Sikkim Sangram Parishad also lost the 1999 assembly election.
In the 2004 state assembly elections, Bhandari contested under the Congress party but the party lost the election, winning only one seat. But there are cases pending in the court of law regarding the conduct of elections.
There are charges of elections being rigged.
Bhandari became the president of the Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee (SPCC) after he had merged his party Sikkim Sangram Parishad with the Indian National Congress in 2003. In May 2013, he was reinstated as the president of the Sikkim Sangram Parishad.
This party won the state assembly election held in 1979 and he became the chief minister for the first time on 18 October 1979.
In 1984, he also served briefly as Member of Parliament from Sikkim constituency in the 8th Lok Sabha as an independent candidate.