BJP Scoring Self-Goals In Bengal With Its Contradictory Stands On Demands For Dividing The State
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Setting up a new party in the Darjeeling hills: GTA chief
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Why BJP MPs want a separate state in north Bengal
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Darjeeling and Gorkha politics will test the BJP’s vision for West Bengal and beyond
The three seats of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal may count for little numerically in the State Assembly of 294 members, but their political significance is a different story. The demand for a separate Gorkhaland State in the hills has singularly driven politics among the Gorkha population for more than three decades now. The agitation has been often violent. In 2017, during the last eruption of violence, the hills were in blockade for 104 days and several people were killed. The BJP’s close involvement with Gorkha politics suggests that it has certain plans for the region, which could have ripples in other parts of the country where demands for autonomy or separate States exist. It was in Darjeeling that the BJP got its foothold into West Bengal. From 2009 to 2019, the region sent a BJP member to the Lok Sabha. The BJP’s traditional position in favou