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7 months, 1 week ago

Trust in continuity: The Hindu Editorial on the Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim results

The verdicts to the Assembly elections in India’s easternmost and smallest State by population, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, respectively, might not be a harbinger of what is to come in the 2024 general election. But the decisive victories achieved by the incumbent parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party in Arunachal Pradesh and the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha in Sikkim, indicate that the …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Sikkim’s ruling SKM heading for landslide victory in assembly polls

Hindustan Times

Silliguri: Sikkim’s ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha appeared to be heading for a landslide victory as it was leading at 31 of the state’s 32 assembly seats where elections were held on April 19. Sikkim chief minister Prem Singh Tamang Golay The Bharatiya Janata Party is an ally of SKM. At the end of second round of counting, SKM, led by …

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7 months, 1 week ago

BJP retains Arunachal for 2nd consecutive term, SKM's resounding win in Sikkim

India Today

The BJP retained power in Arunachal Pradesh for the second straight term, securing 46 of 60 seats. Follow live updates of Arunachal Pradesh Assembly election results here The counting in Arunachal Pradesh began with the BJP winning 10 seats unopposed. Catch live updates of Sikkim Assembly election results here Celebrations began in Arunachal Pradesh as the BJP crossed the majority …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Sikkim Assembly elections results: SKM retains power with landslide victory, wins 31 of 32 seats

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Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang-led Sikkim Krantikari Morcha on Sunday retained power in the Himalayan state for the second consecutive term as it won 31 seats in the 32-member assembly. Pawan Kumar Chamling loses Poklok Kamrang, Namcheybung assembly seats Former Sikkim chief minister and SDF supremo Pawan Kumar Chamling lost to SKM nominees in both Poklok Kamrang and Namcheybung assembly …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

New political alignments put demand of Gorkhaland at the backdrop in Darjeeling

The Hindu

Marked by fresh political alignments, the elections in Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat in 2024 has emerged as one of the most interesting electoral contests in West Bengal. While the politics of Darjeeling hills for the past several decades has been centered around the Gorkha identity and demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland, the issue seems to have taken a …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Darjeeling Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP's Raju Bista faces an uphill task in triangular contest

India TV News

Darjeeling Lok Sabha elections 2024: Darjeeling, one of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal, will go for polls in the second phase of the parliamentary elections on April 26. Lok Sabha election results in Darjeeling Bista won the Darjeeling constituency by a huge margin in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after garnering 750,067, defeating TMC's Amar Singh Rai …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP Releases 3rd List Of 9 Candidates For Sikkim Assembly Polls

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The Bharatiya Janata Party has released the third list of nine candidates for Sikkim Assembly elections. pic.twitter.com/AgglTBxDPG — ANI March 26, 2024 Earlier in the day, the Central Election Committee of the BJP announced the second list consisting of nine candidates for the Sikkim Assembly polls. In its first list, the saffron party named, Narendra Kumar Subba from Maneybung-Dentam, Sancho …

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1 year, 1 month ago

West Bengal: Gorkha leader Binay Tamang joins Congress

India TV News

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 …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Darjeeling’s Gorkha parties call off bandh, stick to statehood demand

Hindustan Times

The Gorkha parties in Darjeeling on Wednesday called off the February 23 bandh that was announced in support for a separate state comprising parts of north Bengal. The bandh was called by the Janmukti Morcha, Hamro Party and Binoy Tamang, former chairman of the board of administrators of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. People of the hills did not support it …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Darjeeling bandh called to press for separate state, Mamata warns of action

Hindustan Times

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has warned of strict action in case of any disturbance during a day-long bandh called in Darjeeling on Thursday to protest against the state government’s opposition to the demand for carving a separate state in parts of north Bengal. We are one.” Former ruling Trinamool Congress leader Binoy Tamang joined a 24-hour hunger strike on Tuesday …

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2 years ago

The north-south divide in West Bengal

The Hindu

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 …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Bengal Polls: Close Fight As Bastions of TMC & BJP Poll in Phase 5

The Quint

In the season of defections leading up to the elections, the TMC's only star acquisition from the BJP’s side was Bimal Gurung. Gurung is a senior leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, a Hills party that has aggressively pressed for the demand of Gorkhaland – a separate state for the Gorkha community. While underground, Gurung, a mass leader in the …

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3 years, 9 months ago

West Bengal Elections 2021 | Cooch Behar killings turning point, BJP to be routed from north Bengal: Bimal Gurung

The Hindu

Asserting that Saturdays firing by the CISF in Cooch Behar, which claimed four lives, would prove to be a "turning point" in Bengal polls, Bimal Gurung, the chief of one of the two GJM factions, claimed that the BJP would face the wrath of voters in the remaining four phases of polling in the northern part of the State. Mr. …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Trinamool backs former Gorkha strongman Bimal Gurung for Darjeeling foray, BJP sniffs an opportunity

India Today

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 …

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3 years, 10 months ago

GJM leader Bimal Gurung holds 1st public meeting in over 3 years

India Today

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung on Tuesday addressed his first public rally after three-and-a-half years in Kurseong, near Darjeeling in West Bengal. "BJP did not do anything for Gorkhas, so I left the alliance and shook hands with Mamata,” said Bimal Gurung at the public rally. As the situation stands, both factions of the GJM — one led by …

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4 years, 2 months ago

A twist in the politics of the Darjeeling hills

The Hindu

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 …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Bimal Gurung chapter closed in Darjeeling, says rival faction after crucial meet with Mamata

India Today

In a bid to placate the pro-TMC faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met its leader Binay Tamang in Kolkata on Tuesday. The meeting comes in the wake of a sudden political u-turn by GJM founder Bimal Gurung, known for his open rebellion against the Mamata Banerjee government. Gurung, who founded GJM in 2007 …

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4 years, 2 months ago

GJM’s Binoy Tamang, Anit Thapa to meet Mamata Banerjee: What could it mean for TMC, BJP and West Bengal polls?

Hindustan Times

Amid growing discontent in the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha faction led by Binoy Tamang, after Bimal Gurung resurfaced last week and pledged support to the Trinamool Congress, West Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to meet Binoy Tamang and Gorkha Territorial Administration chairperson Anit Thapa on Tuesday. Making his first public appearance in three years, GJM leader Bimal Gurung broke …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Amid Protests Against GJM's Bimal Gurung, Mamata to Hold Meeting With Binoy Tamang on Nov 3 to Resolve Differences

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Amid series of protests against GJM leader Bimal Gurung by his opposition camp in the Hills, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked Binoy Tamang for a talk at the state secretariat on November 3 in Kolkata. Mamata’s intervention came after the Hills had witnessed massive protests against Bimal Gurung ever since he extended his support to Mamata Banerjee …

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5 years, 2 months ago

Election results 2019 live updates | BJP, allies come first; AIMIM gains toehold in Bihar

The Hindu

The BJP and its allies on October 24 won 26 of the 51 Assembly seats at stake in the bypolls across 18 States and the Congress emerged victorious in 12 constituencies while Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM tasted its maiden electoral success in Bihar. Jagdish Ishwarbhai Pate of the BJP is leading over his nearest candidate Patel Dharmendra Shantilal of the Congress …

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5 years, 2 months ago

Darjeeling BJP MP Alleges Attack by TMC, GJM Members; Both Refute

The Quint

A police contingent arrived at the spot and dispersed the mob. The incident took place at a time when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on a tour of north Bengal. According to sources, the incident took place on Tuesday afternoon when Bista, along with his personal security officer and two other officials, was on his way to Kalimpong. …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Saffron Surge in West Bengal Bypolls as Well, 4 out of 8 for BJP

The Quint

The Congress won Islampur in the Malda district which is known to be its bastion. Bhatpara, which experienced massive violence on polling that continued for days after, saw a contest between the Trinamool’s Madan Mitra and the BJP’s Pawan Kumar Singh. Mitra, who was a former Transport Minister in the Mamata Banerjee cabinet and is out on bail in the …

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5 years, 9 months ago

Gorkha leader Bimal Gurung set to make a comeback in Darjeeling hills

India Today

Armed with an interim four-day relief from the Supreme Court, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supremo Bimal Gurung is all set to make a comeback in his home turf Darjeeling on Thursday. Announcing the dramatic return through a late night video message on Wednesday, GJM spokesperson BP Bajgain said, "Our party chief Bimal Gurung and other leaders will arrive at the Bagdogra …

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5 years, 9 months ago

Tough contest on cards for Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat as BJP faces Gorkha community's ire, TMC hopes to cash in

Firstpost

The Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency straddles both the hills and plains, and the contrasting political narratives in these two regions set the constituency apart from the rest of West Bengal. To the hill voter, it provides an opportunity for the first time to either affirm or reject the legitimacy of the dispensation presently in charge of the functioning of the …

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Trust in continuity: The Hindu Editorial on the Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim results

Sikkim’s ruling SKM heading for landslide victory in assembly polls

BJP retains Arunachal for 2nd consecutive term, SKM's resounding win in Sikkim

Sikkim Assembly elections results: SKM retains power with landslide victory, wins 31 of 32 seats

New political alignments put demand of Gorkhaland at the backdrop in Darjeeling

Darjeeling Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP's Raju Bista faces an uphill task in triangular contest

BJP Releases 3rd List Of 9 Candidates For Sikkim Assembly Polls

West Bengal: Gorkha leader Binay Tamang joins Congress

Darjeeling’s Gorkha parties call off bandh, stick to statehood demand

Darjeeling bandh called to press for separate state, Mamata warns of action

The north-south divide in West Bengal

Bengal Polls: Close Fight As Bastions of TMC & BJP Poll in Phase 5

West Bengal Elections 2021 | Cooch Behar killings turning point, BJP to be routed from north Bengal: Bimal Gurung

Trinamool backs former Gorkha strongman Bimal Gurung for Darjeeling foray, BJP sniffs an opportunity

GJM leader Bimal Gurung holds 1st public meeting in over 3 years

A twist in the politics of the Darjeeling hills

Bimal Gurung chapter closed in Darjeeling, says rival faction after crucial meet with Mamata

GJM’s Binoy Tamang, Anit Thapa to meet Mamata Banerjee: What could it mean for TMC, BJP and West Bengal polls?

Amid Protests Against GJM's Bimal Gurung, Mamata to Hold Meeting With Binoy Tamang on Nov 3 to Resolve Differences

Election results 2019 live updates | BJP, allies come first; AIMIM gains toehold in Bihar

Darjeeling BJP MP Alleges Attack by TMC, GJM Members; Both Refute

Saffron Surge in West Bengal Bypolls as Well, 4 out of 8 for BJP

Gorkha leader Bimal Gurung set to make a comeback in Darjeeling hills

Tough contest on cards for Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat as BJP faces Gorkha community's ire, TMC hopes to cash in