Gangtok: How many people outside Sikkim know of BB Gooroong? Not many. But BB Gooroong’s name will forever be etched in Sikkim’s history, and to understand why all we need to do is reflect on his rather-eventful life and his mere 13-day reign (May 11-May 24, 1984) as the state’s chief minister.
On March 28, BB Gooroong breathed his last at the age of 93. Born on October 11, 1929, at Chakung, West Sikkim, Gooroong matriculated from St. Robert’s School, Darjeeling in British India and graduated from the University of Calcutta. He was not even 18 when India gained Independence.
He served as a teacher from 1953 to 1955 and a staff reporter in a Calcutta-based newspaper the Amrita Bazar Patrika. He also edited the first news-based Nepali Journal of Sikkim ‘Kanchenjunga.’
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