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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 [...]
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 [...]
Morcha call to shut DGHC offices -Tenders blocked to focus on Gorkhaland
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Darjeeling, Nov. 7: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has called for an indefinite closure of all DGHC offices across the hills from tomorrow. The party will, however, allow the offices to remain open at the month end to facilitate the distribution of salaries among the council employees.
Announcing the movement, Morcha president Bimal Gurung said he had [...]
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 [...]
Three days a week, dress traditionally!
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DARJEELING, Oct. 24: The ‘good influence’ that the traditional dress has had upon the college students has prompted the GJMM to issue yet another fiat. They have made the *daura-suruwal and chaubandi-faria (Nepalese traditional dress for men and women respectively) compulsory even after the dress code programme ends on 7 November.
“Students in traditional dresses not [...]
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 [...]
Traffic to hills resumes amid barbs - Drivers keep fingers crossed
The Telegraph
Siliguri, Oct. 23: The CPM and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha continued to exchange verbal volleys even as governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi appealed to all political parties to maintain peace to resolve the crisis in Darjeeling and speed up growth in Siliguri and its surrounding areas.
“The tripartite talks have started and the second round will be [...]
‘Worried’ Buddha mum on Morcha
The Telegraph
Calcutta, Oct. 21: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today broke his silence on Darjeeling, saying the signs were “extremely worrisome”, but did not name the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, the prime mover of the agitation in the hills.
After meeting hill affairs minister Ashok Bhattacharyya at Writers’ Buildings today, the Bengal chief minister said in a statement: “What has [...]
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 [...]
CPRM rethinks support to GJMM
Statesman News Service
DARJEELING, Oct. 19: Disapproving of the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha’s “undemocratic” activities, the Communist Party Revolutionary-Marxist leadership has indicated the party’s “unconditional support” to the GJMM is over.
“Since the movement is for Gorkhaland and the GJMM pledged to uphold democracy at all costs, the CPRM had extended its unconditional support. But now the [...]
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