Citu
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, [...]
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 [...]
CPM to oppose anti-GJMM bandh, says Asok
Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Oct. 19: The state urban development minister Mr Asok Bhattacharya has said that the CPI-M would strongly oppose any proposed bandhs in the north Bengal plains called against the ‘anarchic activities’ of the agitating Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha in the Darjeeling Hills.
Protesting against the GJMM’s acts of replacing ‘West Bengal’ from the [...]
Pro-GJMM drivers against Citu stir
The Statesman
DARJEELING, Oct.19: The Jana Mukti Darjeeling Hotel Owners Association (JDHOA), a GJMM affiliate has urged the state government to take an initiative to prevent Citu’s call to halt movement of vehicles from plains to Darjeeling from 22 October opposing GJMM’s GL plate implementation programme.
“Since we carry our business in collaboration with other hotels and [...]
Citu threatens taxi strike
The Telegraph
Siliguri, Oct. 14: The Citu-affiliated taxi drivers’ union here has decided to go on an indefinite strike from October 19 to protest against the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s announcement that taxis to the hills must use “GL” number plates by replacing ones with “WB”.
“We are not ready to violate the motor vehicles’ act and ply [...]
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