[5][6] In 2024, Tamang was conferred with the Gorkha Gaurav Samman 2024 award by the Nepali language daily Himalaya Darpan.

Golay became a dissident MLA of the SDF party after the Rolu Picnic event that was conducted by employees of Sikkim on 21 December 2009.

The ruling party called a show-cause notice to the government workers who attended the Rolu Picnic.

During the election of 2014, the party gained ten of thirty-two seats in the Sikkim State Legislative Assembly under the leadership of Golay.

On 13 January 2017, he was disqualified from the Sikkim Legislative Assembly after being convicted on 28 December 2016 for misappropriating government funds while with the SDF between 1994 and 1999.

[9] On 24 May 2019, SKM spokesperson Jacob Khaling said Golay will head the government in the state however, according to constitutional experts, his conviction under the Prevention of Corruption Act might be a hindrance for him becoming the Chief Minister of Sikkim.

[10] On 27 May 2019, Golay, who did not contest the legislative assembly polls, was sworn in the 6th Chief Minister of the state of Sikkim.