Did you know this Assembly Constituency from Northeast India doesn’t exist on map
FACTS | April 10, 2019:
There is an assembly constituency in Sikkim with no geographical boundaries to define its exact location. When you closely look at a map of the constituencies of Sikkim, you won't find Sangha. It is the only assembly seat in the country that has no geographical location!
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Sangha is the constituency of all the Buddhist monks and nuns belonging to Sikkim, no matter where they reside in the state. They are all registered as voters of Sangha and not the area they live in.
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With a little over 2,800 voters, the 32-Sangha assembly seat is spread across Sikkim.
Every person of the monastic Sangha community living across the Himalayan state can vote in this 'virtual' assembly seat.
Election officials say that the assembly constituency is reserved for monks of the Sangha community, and only those whose names figure in the records of 111 recognized monasteries in Sikkim can either fight the elections or vote so to preserve the distinct identity of Sangha.
The Sikkim chief electoral officer said that the Buddhist clergy in Sikkim takes an annual break from the routine ritualistic chanting of prayers and turning of prayer wheels to elect their own representative to 32 Sangha assembly constituency.
Featured image: Team-BHP
Source: NDTV
