# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pawan-kumar-chamling
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:20:51.338Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pawan-kumar-chamling"
name: "Pawan Kumar Chamling"
slug: "pawan-kumar-chamling"
description: "Pawan Kumar Chamling Rai is an Indian politician and writer of Sikkimese descent who served as the 5th Chief Minister of Sikkim from 12 December 1994 to 26 May 2019. He is the longest serving Chief Minister in India, surpassing Naveen Patnaik. Chamling is the Founder-President of the Sikkim Democratic Front. He also served as the Leader of the opposition, Sikkim Legislative Assembly in the year of 2019. He represented the Namchi-Singhithang constituency in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly since 2019 till 2024 and the Damthang constituency from 1985 to 1994. Prior to establishing the Sikkim Democratic Front, Chamling served as Minister for Industries, Information and Public Relations from 1989 to 1992 in Nar Bahadur Bhandari's cabinet."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pawan-Kumar-Chamling.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1950-09-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump