Crowd goes after ‘GL’ car

The Telegraph
Siliguri, Nov. 17: A Maruti van of the Kurseong Municipality with “GL” numberplate and “on duty” was seized this morning after residents of Nibedita Road in Pradhannagar forced it to stop.
The driver, Rajesh Primal, has been detained by police. Around 30 people surrounded the vehicle and started abusing the driver, who immediately fled 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 [...]

GJM files suit against Madan Tamang

GJMM files defamation suit, FIR against AIGL president
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 12: The Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha has filed a defamation suit of Rs one crore against AIGL president Mr Madan Tamang for slandering GJMM president Mr Bimal Gurung and other office bearers with “baseless allegations.”
The case that was filed with the Civil Judge (Senior [...]

Darjeeling police develop special force for security reasons

Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Nov. 11: The Darjeeling district police have fashioned a special commando force to deploy during possible riots and to cope with unforeseen incidents in any part of the district.
“There is a general perception among the public that the police are not doing enough to ensure their security. That is why we created [...]

The Telegraph - Tête à tête - ‘The nation now owes us justice, and a state of our own’

The Telegraph
Gorkha Janamukti Morcha chief Bimal Gurung, who has been aggressively pushing for a separate state for the Gorkhas, tells Debashis Bhattacharyya that he is using non-violent means to achieve his goal

Tête à tête
A weak sun peeps out of a veil of clouds, casting a soft glow on the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha’s office in the [...]

Anxiety as deadline expires

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Nov. 7: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has not spelt out its plan of action against Madan Tamang but anxiety gripped Darjeeling after the expiry of the deadline today.
Bimal Gurung’s outfit had given the ABGL president time till 6pm today to prove his allegation that the Morcha relaxed its movement after a secret meeting with home [...]

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 [...]

Dress code clamped on students - Bail applications rejected once again - Traditional attire for ‘healthy’ college atmosphere

The Telegraph
Darjeeling, Oct 24: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has announced that college students will have to attend classes in traditional attires three days a week even after the dress code movement ends on November 7.
This dress code for students will create a “healthy atmosphere in colleges,” the Morcha has claimed. On the other hand, the [...]

GJMM refutes AIGL’s ‘secret meeting’ allegations

Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Oct. 24: The Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha leadership has issued a 7 November deadline to All India Gorkha League president Mr Madan Tamang to prove the efficacy of the allegation regarding their secret meeting with the state home secretary Mr AM Chakraborty at Teen Chulay in Takda during the official’s recent visit [...]

Withdrawal part of GJMM’s plan: AIGL

Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Oct. 23: The All India Gorkha League leadership charged the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha leadership today with having reached a secret understanding with the state government before the formal withdrawal of the party’s agitational programmes related to GL number plates and defacement of state government office signboards.
“The formal withdrawal supposedly [...]