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Darjeeling stir: Army redeployed as agitators torch toy train station after youth s death; GJM rejects talks with state govt
Darjeeling stir: Army redeployed as agitators torch toy train station after youth s death; GJM rejects talks with state govt
The Army Was On Saturday Redeployed In Darjeeling Hills After Fresh Violence Broke Out At Sonada Where Gorkhaland Supporters Torched A Police Outpost And A Toy Train Station After A Youth Was Killed In Alleged Police Firing Last Night. PTI | Updated on: 09 Jul 2017, 10:54:25 AM
Darjeeling (WB):
The Army was on Saturday redeployed in Darjeeling hills after fresh violence broke out at Sonada where Gorkhaland supporters torched a police outpost and a toy train station after a youth was killed in alleged police firing last night.
Leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha breakaway faction Binay Tamang on Sunday announced his decision to quit electoral politics.
“I will not indulge in electoral politics further.under no circumstances,” Tamang told mediapersons, adding that he was making the announcement after having discussed the issue with his family, friends and well-wishers. However, Tamang also added that he would continue to indulge in politics and his party would contest the elections. “I will indulge in politics. It is just that I will not contest elections. My party will contest elections,” said the hill leader.
Of late, Tamang has started speaking on larger issues like the review of the India-Nepal Friendship Treaty 1950, the administrative history of the region, the inclusion of the region under the ministry for Northeast states.
Hill leaders in Calcutta and Delhi for talks Political situation seems to be aligned between two power centres, Trinamul and the BJP
Anit Thapa, the chairman of the board of administrators at the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, was in Calcutta, while leaders of four different hill parties were in Delhi on Wednesday to meet BJP leaders.
It is safe to assume that no local political leader worth his salt is in the Darjeeling hills now.
This is a clear indication that regional politics is being shaped by state and central politics, said an observer.
Anit Thapa of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s Binay Tamang camp is in Calcutta for an “administrative meeting” when all current discussion in Darjeeling is politics.
GNLF team off to Delhi to meet Amit Shah Sources said the purpose of the visit was to discuss the permanent political solution of the hills, an issue time and again flagged by hill parties
A three-member delegation of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) left for Delhi on Monday to meet Union home minister Amit Shah and other BJP leaders.
Sources in the hill party said the purpose of the visit was to discuss the permanent political solution of the hills, an issue time and again flagged by hill parties.
The delegation of party president Mann Ghising, general secretary Mahendra Chhetri and Darjeeling MLA Neeraj Zimba who had won on a BJP ticket at the 2019 bypolls, left for Delhi after a call from the Union home ministry.