Asok Bhattacharya
‘GJMM is a frustrated lot’
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Nov. 24: The CPI-M Darjeeling district leadership today said that the GJMM was losing ground in the Darjeeling hills and in a fit of frustration its leadership was indulging in wild ramblings against the CPI-M and the state government.
Reacting to the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung’s allegation in Kuseong yesterday that the [...]
Gurung blames Asok for Bangladeshi migrants
Statesman News Service
KURSEONG, Nov. 23: State urban development minister Mr Asok Bhattacharya’s life is not long as nowadays with the way he is promoting and giving shelter to the Bangladeshi nationals in the Terai region, Dooars and Darjeeling hills, aiding communal organisations like the Aamra Bengali and Jan-Jagran Manch, said GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung. [...]
DYFI supporters to resist ‘Gorkhaland’ demand
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Nov.23: With an imminent threat of expulsion haunting, a number of DYFI activists hailing from three sub divisions of the Darjeeling hills have not minced words in denouncing the Gorkhaland demand. “We are invincibly convinced that a separate state carved out of West Bengal would not prove to be a panacea for [...]
DYFI Darjeeling district conference on Hills and development issue
The Statesman
SILIGURI, Nov. 19: The Democratic Youth Federation of India seems all set to use its two-day Darjeeling district conference, beginning in Siliguri on 22 November as a podium to throw a gauntlet at the Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha as the latter often claims that the Left inclined forces have ceased to exist in the [...]
Asok warns of replay
The Telegraph
Siliguri, Nov. 16: People spearheading the movement for Gorkhaland will face a Subash Ghisingh-like situation one day, Asok Bhattacharya, the Bengal urban development minister, today warned.
“Once Ghisingh (the GNLF chief) was worshipped like God and the hill people used to follow him whatever he asked them to do. When he had ordered them to [...]
Water & health staff to strike next week
The Telegraph
Kalimpong, Nov. 14: The employees of water works department will abstain from duty for six days next week as part of the ongoing agitation by the Janmukti Asthai Karmachari Sangathan (JAKS) for the regularisation of the jobs of DGHC staff.
The strike is part of a series of programmes announced today by JAKS to kick [...]
IGP to continue work in strife-torn Hills, irrespective of threat
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Nov. 12: The inspector general of police, North Bengal Mr Kundanlal Tamta said today that he would continue discharging his duty in the Darjeeling Hills irrespective of any threat from any quarters. He was replying to queries concerning the reported threat from a Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha frontal organisation against his entry [...]
Protesters stop traffic - Tourists leave before blockade
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov. 11: Picketers stopped traffic in town from 11am today in response to a chaka jam called by All Hill Transport Joint Action Committee to protest against the alleged government move to open a camp of the motor vehicles department in Siliguri.
However, most hill residents seem to have been prepared for the two-hour [...]
Traffic snarl
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 11: A two-hour wheel-jam called by the All Transport Joint Action Committee to protest against the transfer of the motor-vehicles department to Siliguri, brought traffic to a standstill in the Hills today.
The ATJAC, a GJMM-affiliate stopped tax collection from vehicles as part of its tax non-payment drive which was taken up [...]
CPM worried at Hill situation
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Nov. 9: The CPI-M Darjeeling district committee has expressed serious concern over the recent turn of events in the Darjeeling Hills.
Following a meeting of the district committee held in Siliguri today, the district secretariat member and the state urban development minister Mr Asok Bhattacharya accused the Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha of spearheading [...]
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