Gorkha leader Binay Tamang joined the Congress at Kalimpong on Sunday, a party leader said. Tamang, a former chairman of the semi-autonomous Gorkhaland Territorial Administration that governs the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal, accepted the flag of the grand old party from state Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in the hill town. Tamang was a close aide of Gorkha Janmukti …
In the second week of December 2022, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung organised a national seminar in New Delhi on the issue of Gorkhaland, which seeks a separate State to be carved out of territories of Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal. A few days after the convention, on December 28, when the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha and …
In October 2017, West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh was chased through the streets and partymen accompanying him thrashed allegedly by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha activists in Darjeeling. In Gurung’s absence, Mamata stitched up an alliance with the Binay Tamang faction of GJM, and BJP with the powerful Gorkha National Liberation Front. Photo: India Today In fact, other North Bengal districts …
THE reconciliation between the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and Bimal Gurung, the erstwhile undisputed leader of the Darjeeling hills of north Bengal, has given a new twist to the volatile and unpredictable politics of the hills. In 2017, Gurung fled the Darjeeling hills after the Mamata Banerjee government slapped a number of criminal charges, including those under the …
