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Bail order pending for GNLF leaders
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Dec. 1: The chief judicial magistrate court in Darjeeling could not give release order to GNLF leaders Mr CB Subba and Mr Tika Khati along with four others who have been granted bail by Calcutta High Court, because the court has not received a certified copy of the bail order.
Altogether 14 GNLF [...]
Kanu demands a survey of areas earmarked for ‘Gorkhaland’
The Statesman
SILIGURI, Dec.1: The veteran Naxalite leader Mr Kanu Sanyal today said that the Centre should undertake a full-scale survey of the region demanded for inclusion in the proposed Gorkhaland by the agitating Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha.
“Rounds of tripartite negotiations on the Darjeeling impasse would prove an official formality unless the Centre undertook a thorough [...]
GJMM to intensify stir against talks delay
The Statesman
DARJEELING, Nov. 30: The Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha will neither appeal to the state nor the Central government to expedite the second round of tripartite talks. They would rather intensify their agitation programme from the 7 December in protest against the delay.
“At the first tripartite meeting in September, it was decided that the next [...]
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 [...]
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