Archive for August 26th, 2008
Priya asks state for Hill proposal
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SILIGURI, Aug. 25: The Parliamentary affairs minister Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi has asked the West Bengal government to proffer a definite proposal at the proposed tripartite meeting on the Darjeeling imbroglio scheduled soon in New Delhi. “Unless the state government puts such a proposal, the dialogue may turn into a meaningless exercise,” he said.
“The respective [...]
GL license plate deadline reached. Non-complying vehicles’ tyres to be deflated
Operation spot-and-deflate-WB from today - Hill outfit to set up pickets on national highway
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Siliguri, Aug. 25: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today threatened to lay siege to NH55 — that connects the plains to Darjeeling — from tomorrow to track down vehicles with “WB” number plates.
“We will organise pickets and if we spot such vehicles, both [...]
‘GL’ license plates switch complete. Taxis without plate to be removed from Govt. service
Morcha claims switch complete
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Darjeeling, Aug. 25: Almost all private vehicles plying in the Darjeeling hills today sported “GL” number plates following the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s call for a “civil disobedience” movement last week.
Narbu Lama, the president of the All Transport Joint Action Committee, which along with the Yuva Morcha is overseeing the implementation of the [...]
‘Unity in diversity’
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SILIGURI, Aug. 25: To maintain peace and unity among the different ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic groups in the hills and plains of Darjeeling district, the intelligentsia of the region should mobilise public opinion against those who are trying to stoke fires of communalism to gain political mileage.
This is what the large number [...]
Gurung’s wife avoids ‘new’ plate
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Siliguri/Jaigaon, Aug. 25: Bimal Gurung’s wife today travelled to the Dooars in a vehicle with “WB” number plate to set up the central committee office of an outfit affiliated to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
Asha Gurung’s car had the registration number “WB-77-7070” and she inaugurated the office of the Gorkha Janmukti Adivasi Morcha at Mahabaribusty near [...]
AIGL to revive youth wing
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KURSEONG, Aug. 24: Keeping in mind, the present political activities of the Darjeeling Hills and to run their political activities, smoothly, in support of Gorkhaland, the All India Gorkha League is now reviving their youth wing, Tarun Gorkha.
The AIGL, Kurseong branch president, Mr S.K Pradhan informed that to fight the present political activities of Darjeeling [...]
Identity politics in the Hills
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SILIGURI, Aug. 24: With the political leadership in the vanguard of the ‘Gorkhaland’ agitation scaling new heights of passion the intellectuals are advocating for restraint so that the spirit of rational introspection does not get lost in the continuing political whirlwind in the Darjeeling hills.
“The identity crisis of the Indian Nepali community residing [...]
GJMM against transfer of case
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DARJEELING, Aug. 24: The Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha has cautioned the West Bengal government against trying to transfer the case of 14 GNLF leaders and supporters arrested for the murder of GJMM supporter Ms Pramila Sharma to courts in the plains.
Due to security reasons the jail authorities were unable to produce GNLF ex-councillors [...]
Bengali body slams Pranab’s comment on ‘Gorkhaland’
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SILIGURI, Aug. 24: Janajagaran, a Bagdogra based apolitical body opposed to the Gorkhaland demand has cried foul over the foreign minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee’s recent comment wherein the Union minister allegedly identified the statehood movement in Darjeeling as a ‘constitutional’ one.
Emerging out of a meeting with Mr Mukherjee in New Delhi recently, the [...]
Trip to woo Sikkim, time to make amends - Gurung in Gangtok with ‘GL’ number plate
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Gangtok, Aug. 24: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief Bimal Gurung today arrived here from Darjeeling on his Tata Safari bearing a “GL” number plate, more to make peace than attend a religious convention.
In recent times, the frequent blockades set up by the Morcha on NH 31A, the lifeline to the Himalayan state, had irked Pawan Chamling. [...]
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