The perceived dangers of a "Greater Sikkim" are discussed by Mohan Ram in a recent article in the New Delhi Pioneer, excerpted here, whose starting point is the constitutional recognition given to the Nepali language in India.
Sikkim's new status, as a linguistic state of Nepalis, gives a new edge to the hitherto nebulous demand for a "Greater Sikkim" encompassing the adjacent Nepali-speaking tracts of the former kingdom which became a part of India under controversial circumstances.
Eyebrows were raised at the Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia in New Delhi late in May when Bhutan´s Foreign Minister, Lynpo Dawa Tshering, said in answer to a question that the "Greater Nepal" demand of a Nepal extending to the Nepali-speaking tracts in India (Sikkim Dooars, Kalimpong and Darjeeling), was a myth with no basis in history. But he hastened to concede that a demandfor "Greater Sikkim" would be a greater threat to Bhutan than the "Greater Nepal" idea.
Lynpo Tshering, during his talks with the Indian Government last May, passed on a four-page pamphlet, "The Voice of the Oppressed People of Bhutan", which amounts to an open call for a Greater Sikkim.