12/09/2026
Press Release
11.9.2026
Students of Sikkim's only law college are currently on strike. The 'Law' College located in Burtuk, near the capital Gangtok, is the sole law college in the state of Sikkim. If it stops functioning, it means the study of law comes to a halt in Sikkim altogether. Has the government — whose leaders are skilled at bending the law without breaking it — perhaps also bent, or even doubled, the funds meant for repairing the college's infrastructure? Must Sikkim's young students now give up studying law? Must Sikkimese sons and daughters sacrifice their dreams of becoming advocates? Must their dreams be killed?
The SDF Party demands that the government immediately fulfill the demands of these justice- and law-loving young students. The demands of the students of Burtuk Law College are extremely important. They have not asked the government for money to go on a picnic — they are asking for their right to study. They are demanding that the infrastructure be fixed. Providing students with proper infrastructure for their studies is the government's foremost duty, and the government should have completed this work before the college session began. But because the government treated such an important demand of the students so carelessly, the students today have been forced to go on strike.
A government that spends crores of rupees organizing dozens of entertainment programs in the state, yet cannot arrange adequate infrastructure for a single college, thereby proves itself to be a government indifferent to the future of the youth — an anti-youth, anti-student government. It proves itself to be a government that distracts youth with party politics and entertainment in order to make them carry its party flag for its own selfish interests.
The government must fulfill the students' demands immediately. The SDF Party stands with all the students of Sikkim. The youth and students are Sikkim's future — they are tomorrow's Sikkim.
The youth of the SKM should also join their brothers and sisters of the Law College in the strike. Even while holding their own party's flag, they must also shoulder this responsibility. Sikkimese youth and students must unite to save their own future. They must unite to save Sikkim — otherwise this government will leave the people of Sikkim in a state of having neither home nor shore (utterly stranded).
Amber Rai
Senior Vice-President
Publicity & Publicity
SDF Party