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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 [...]
Mission Dooars for Bimal’s wife - Morcha harps on Gorkha-Adivasi unity
The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Nov. 25: If Bimal Gurung is trying to reach out to statehood supporters in every nook and corner of the hills, his wife Asha is on a mission to unite various voices in the Dooars that supports the Gorkhaland movement.
Realising the importance of the need to garner the support of the Adivasis in [...]
In the middle of nowhere
The Telegraph
It is time the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha engages itself in responsible politics, writes Vivek Chhetri
The demand for a separate state is being heard loudly again all over the Darjeeling hills for more than a year now. But the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, the party at the forefront of the movement, seems to have landed itself [...]
The great divide: Hills on the edge again
Times of India
20 Oct 2008, 0327 hrs IST,
Keshav Pradhan,TNN
Over the past few months, Darjeeling seems to have emerged as one of the most dangerous conflict zones in the country. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), spearheading a movement for a Gorkha homeland, has turned the Left Front government virtually irrelevant by introducing its own vehicle registration numbers, [...]
ABAVP strike in Dooars and Siliguri; GJMM response
ABAVP shutdown hits life in Siliguri
www.thestatesman.net
SILIGURI, Oct.16: “We are suffering mainly because of the failure of the government to solve the Gorkhaland issue,” said Mr Akhil Roy, a resident of Batashi, as he waited at the Upper Bagdogra bus stand this morning.
Like Roy, the large number of people who remained stranded at many places on [...]
Gurung’s wife avoids ‘new’ plate
www.telegraphindia.com
Siliguri/Jaigaon, Aug. 25: Bimal Gurung’s wife today travelled to the Dooars in a vehicle with “WB” number plate to set up the central committee office of an outfit affiliated to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
Asha Gurung’s car had the registration number “WB-77-7070” and she inaugurated the office of the Gorkha Janmukti Adivasi Morcha at Mahabaribusty near [...]
GJMM threatens boycott of tripartite talks if Gorkhaland Statehood issue not included
GJMM threatens not to join tripartite talks over apathy towards ‘Gorkhaland’
www.thestatesman.net
DARJEELING, Aug. 18: In response to chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s recent comments ruling out the possibility of dividing Bengal to form Gorkhaland, the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung today threatened to walkout from the tripartite dialogue if the talks did not centre on the [...]
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