Archive for November, 2008
Mob gheraoes municipal office
The Statesman
Mob gheraoes municipal office
KURSEONG, Nov. 28: Hundreds of people from the rural areas gheraoed the GJMM run Kurseong Municipality under the banner of the Gorkha Jan Mukti Joint Action Committee, demanding a halt to all development works in the municipal area. According to the agitators, the development works were diverting attention from the Gorkhaland [...]
Bridge over troubled water
The Statesman
DARJEELING, Nov. 28: The CPRM has taken it on itself to sort out the political differences between the GJMM and the AIGL, for the Gorkhaland cause. Accordingly, an 11-member CPRM delegation led by its central committee members ~ Mr Sawan Rai and Mr JB Rai ~ met the leadership of the two parties today [...]
Centre delayed talks: LF
The Statesman
SILIGURI, Nov. 28: The principal constituents of the Left Front flayed the Centre for “delaying” the second round of tripartite negotiation on Gorkhaland scheduled to be held in New Delhi in November. “The Centre has been delaying the talks deliberately for political gains,” said the leaders of the CPI, Forward Bloc and the RSP.
It [...]
CPM leader defects to GJMM
The Statesman
CPM leader quits party, joins GJMM
DARJEELING, Nov. 28: The CPI-M suffered its first political setback in the Darjeeling Hills today in relation to the ongoing Gorkhaland struggle. Deserting the Marxists, CPI-M Darjeeling district committee member Mr Narayan Pradhan joined the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha today.
The CPI-M district leadership is yet to confirm the development [...]
Tripartite meet delay a conspiracy: Morcha -‘Best wishes’ with caution
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov. 27: Madan Tamang, the president of the ABGL, extended his “best wishes” to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha for the ensuing tripartite meeting but said the talks must lead to statehood.
Tamang’s statement comes at a time when both his party and the Morcha are at loggerheads. In recent times, Morcha supporters had gheraoed [...]
GJMM says no to bipartite talks
The Statesman
DARJEELING, Nov. 27: The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha announced today that it would not sit for the purported bipartite talks with the state chief secretary Mr Amit Kiran Deb and home secretary Mr AM Chakraborty before the tripartite talks that is slated to be held in Darjeeling on 28 November.
“Some of the media channels [...]
Candlelight rallies to spur Round II talks
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov 27: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has decided to organise candlelight rallies across “Gorkhaland” from tomorrow to press for an immediate second round of tripartite talks on the statehood demand.
The Centre, state and the Morcha delegation had agreed to hold another round of talks when they sat on September 8 for the first [...]
Bail order for six sent to Siliguri
The Telegraph
Calcutta, Nov. 27: The copies of the Calcutta High Court order granting bail to Chandra Bahadur Subba and five more GNLF supporters were sent to Siliguri today.
They will be released from jail, where they have been languishing for more than 100 days, after their lawyers furnish the bail bonds before the additional chief judicial [...]
To pay or not to pay…
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 27: Surprise awaited Darjeeling residents today in the shape of a notice signed by the Sub Divisional Engineer (technical) in the BSNL office announcing that its payment department would remain open for residents to pay outstanding telephone bills up to 6 December from today.
The unexpected part is that notice came without [...]
Gorkha camp to be set up in missionary institutes
The Statesman
DARJEELING/KURSEONG, Nov. 26: Following the reluctance of missionary-run educational institutions to directly participate in the ongoing Gorkhaland movement, the Gorkha Jana Vidhyarthi Morcha (GJVM) has decided to form its units in St Joseph’s College and Southfield College respectively.
Although the former participated in the ongoing students’ relay hunger strike for the successful outcome of the [...]
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