Archive for October 21st, 2008
GJM delegation to meet Gandhi in Darjeeling today
www.expressindia.com
Kartyk Venkatraman
Posted: Oct 21, 2008 at 0236 hrs IST
Kolkata, October 20:
Less than two months after facilitating talks between the Trinamool Congress and the state government over the Singur issue, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi seems headed for the hot seat again. This time, it is the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), which has sought an audience with him [...]
Violence after anti-Gorkhaland protesters burn bike
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October 21st, 2008 - 12:48 am ICT by IANS
Siliguri (West Bengal), Oct 20 (IANS) Violence erupted here as irate opponents of the Gorkhaland agitation in northern West Bengal Monday evening burnt a bicycle bearing a number plate beginning with GL for Gorkhaland.Activists of the Janachetana Mancha, which is opposing the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha’s agitation for [...]
Anti-GJM bandh leaves little impact
The Hindu
Siliguri, WB (PTI): Shibsena sponsored 48-hour and Amra Bangali supported 24-hour bandh in Terai, Dooars and Siliguri opposing Gorkha Janamukti Morcha’s (GJM) ‘illegal activities’ left ‘little’ impact on Tuesday, police said.
Shops, markets, business establishments remained open, and vehicles were plying normally. Train and plane services were also normal. Though a few big shops did [...]
Police ready with bandh blueprint - Administration asks for more forces in troubled spots before shutdown spree
The Telegraph
Oct. 20: The Darjeeling district administration is working on a blueprint to avert law and order problems as anti-Gorkha Janmukti Morcha outfits prepare to shut down Siliguri and its adjoining areas from tomorrow.
“Organisations which had threatened to go on bandhs had been requested to change their decisions. But the apprehension is that they may [...]
Hills on the boil again
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Oct. 20: Siliguri and the Dooars region in north Bengal are all set to witness two separate bandhs against the Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha’s agitation for a separate Gorkhaland state in the Darjeeling Hills beginning Tuesday morning.
While the ‘Shiv Sena’ has called for a 48-hour bandh in Siliguri-Dooars from 6 am tomorrow, [...]
Anti-Gorkhaland body invokes Gandhigiri
The Statesman
SILIGURI, Oct.20: When every thing else fails try Gandhigiri! To pursue the West Bengal government to take action against those who are sporting “GL” number plates on their vehicles in the Darjeeing hills, Jana Chetana - a pressure group in Siliguri - is trying a new tack.
Many Jana Chetana members, who took part in [...]
Citu, Asok differ over transport strike against GL menace
The Statesman
Bappaditya Paul
SILIGURI, Oct. 20: The Citu’s Darjeeling district committee and the state urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya, are speaking in different voices over the former’s threat of an indefinite transport strike against the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha’s imposition of ‘GL’ number plates on vehicles entering the Darjeeling Hills.
Setting a deadline until tomorrow for [...]
Hill hotels plan to permanently resolve strike crises
Hill hotels pledge help
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Oct 20: Stung by a series of bandh threats in the plains, the Janmukti Hotel Owners’ Association today assured tourists that they would be given all help to reach their destinations during the shutdowns.
A sensitive sector like tourism gets affected even by threats to call bandhs. Keeping this in mind, [...]
Tourists exit Darjeeling over GJM diktat
PTI
Siliguri (West Bengal): Tourists have started leaving Darjeeling hills on Monday, anticipating return of unrest with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha stopping movement of vehicles that do not possess GL number plates and several organisations, including the CITU, opposing the move.
The GJM, agitating for a separate state of Gorkhaland, recently called for removal of the ‘Government [...]
CPRM rethinks support to GJMM
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Oct. 19: Disapproving of the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha’s “undemocratic” activities, the Communist Party Revolutionary-Marxist leadership has indicated the party’s “unconditional support” to the GJMM is over.
“Since the movement is for Gorkhaland and the GJMM pledged to uphold democracy at all costs, the CPRM had extended its unconditional support. But now the [...]
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