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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 [...]
Dress code compulsory for colleges
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Kurseong, Nov. 17: The student wing of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has made traditional attires compulsory for college-goers three days a week and warned them of taking “action” if the order is violated.
Earlier, the Morcha had asked the students to attend classes in traditional attires on Monday, Wednesday and Friday even after the dress code [...]
Destiny’s child…
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Kurseong, Nov. 16: The GJMM president Mr Bimal Gurung said today while addressing a public rally at Ambootia Tea Estate in Kurseong, that he had been catapulted to the exalted public position from a humble background as destiny wanted him to contribute his mite to the movement for Gorkhaland. He also asked the [...]
Quit threat by Gurung
The Telegraph
Ambootia (Kurseong), Nov. 16: People in the hills should remain united till Gorkhaland is achieved, Bimal Gurung, said today. The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief has also threatened to step down if they are not happy with his party’s performance.
When other political parties were given more than 20 years to achieve Gorkhaland, the Morcha had [...]
Exams to be deferred for GJM rally - Board selections spared
Morcha spares board selections
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Darjeeling, Nov. 10: The annual examinations in hill schools will be deferred by at least a week to facilitate students’ participation in the movement for Gorkhaland being spearheaded by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
The student agitation, which includes relay hunger strikes from tomorrow, is likely to continue till the third week of November [...]
Cultural agitation ends with jhanki
The Statesman
KURSEONG, Nov. 7: To mark the end of the month long ‘cultural agitation’ of the GJMM, today, the GJMM Kurseong wing organised a huge jhanki, in Kurseong, depicting different aspects related to the Gorkha Community and its demand of separate state. The jhanki proceeded towards Darjeeling.
Meanwhile, they also organised a rally in Kurseong, in [...]
GJMM youth wing bans sale of gutka, pan-masala
The Statesman
KURSEONG, Oct.28: From today onwards, the sale of Gutkas and Pan-Masalas have been banned in Kurseong, imposed by the GJMM youth wing.
The GJMM Kurseong branch, youth wing, president, Mr Pemendra Gurung said: “Keeping in mind the fatal health problems resulting from chewing of Guthas and Pan Masalas and the rise of consumers by the [...]
Flower ’showdown’ in the Hills
Statesman News Service
Kurseong, Oct. 27: The directive of the Janmukti Asthai Karmachari Sangathan might hamper the observation of rituals and the people alike in the hills this festive season.
Recently, the JAKS had issued a directive that they will not allow the sale of flowers from the plains in the Hills. Following this, the plains flowers [...]
Compulsory code
Statesman News Service
KURSEONG, Oct.21: From today onwards, the students of Kurseong College will have to be dressed in their respective traditional attires as the Kurseong College student union has made the dress code diktat compulsory in the college, for a month. If any one does not obey the rule then they would not get any [...]
Dress code crusaders hit town
The Telegraph
Kurseong Oct. 15: The youth and the women’s wings of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today went all over town requesting residents to wear traditional attires as part of the “cultural movement” in the hills.
“We have asked shopkeepers to adhere to the dress code and at the same time told them to pass on the [...]
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