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Ruden Sada Lepcha

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ106839342 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ruden Sada Lepcha is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha. In May 2021, he was elected as a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Kalimpong (constituency) as a candidate of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Tamang). He defeated Suva Pradhan of Bharatiya Janata Party by 3,870 votes in 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections.

Criminal Records

He is an accused in a number of criminal cases, including criminal intimidation and kidnapping with intent to murder. However, he hasn't been convicted in any form so far.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ruden Sada Lepcha” as indian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ruden, Sada and Lepcha can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106839342. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ruden Sada Lepcha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.