Nar Bahadur Bhandari

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Nar Bahadur Bhandari (born October 5, 1940) was the former Chief Minister of Sikkim from the Sikkim Sangram Parishad. He was appointed in 1979, after a period of instability in the state. He held on to power in the 1984 and 1989 elections, but lost to Pawan Kumar Chamling in 1994. Chamling's party, the Sikkim Democratic Front has swept all elections since then.

On October 25, 2008, Nar Bahadur Bhandari was convicted along with nine others, by a designated CBI court in Gangtok for bungling in the state water scam, leading to a loss of Rupees four lakh to the state exchequer. The court sentenced Bhandari and the then state Rural Development Secretary P K Pradhan to six-month imprisonment along with Rupees 10,000 as fine. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/former-sikkim-cm-gets-6month-jail-in-water-scam/76733-3.html