Writes: Dinesh Sharma The Gorkhaland agitation of 2017 has been an eye-opener in many aspects. While it did not yield the desired results even after 104 days of the shutdown, it did manage to bring out the inner demon in us, exposing our vulnerabilities, our inability to trust one another, and utter disrespect for the […]

PRESS RELEASE:- The Darjeeling, Terai and Duars touches three international boundaries – Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Tibet (China) is also located right above our region. Given which the significance and importance of this highly sensitive and strategic border area, that connects the Indian mainland to the rest of North East India, cannot be overstated. Of […]

Bimal Gurung faction has released a press release denying Binay Tamang’s  recent statement, claiming to be from GJM, that  Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has quit the NDA with BJP. Here is the Press release: A statement released by Binoy Tamang, the West Bengal government appointed GTA Chairman of the Board of Administrators, that Gorkha Janmukti Morcha […]

बिनय-अनित र ममताले “बिमल गुरूङ” पहाड नचडाेस भन्ने चाहान्छ भने, जनतालाई बिमलले जस्तै जातित्व प्रेम र सुरक्षाकाे प्रत्याभूति दिन सक्नु पर्छ। बिमलकाे अनुपस्थितीमा अाज पनि पहाडकाे जनता भयभित र असुरक्षित महशुस गरि रहेका छन्। पहाडमा जनता अब के चाहन्छन् ? – पुरण छेत्री : बर्तमान अवस्थामा, पहाडकाे जनताले एक किसिमकाे असुरक्षा महशुस गरिरहेका छन्। चेलिबेटीलाई […]

BREAKING :- Bimal Gurung May be arrested any time soon … Supreme Court dismisses Bimal Gurung’s plea to transfer cases outside West Bengal – The court also lifted the stay on his arrest. The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung’s petition to transfer the cases against him outside West Bengal, […]

To all my Gorkha Family,who have been working and waiting so patiently for the past 8 to 9 months. The news of my arrest which went viral yesterday has caused panic and fear,I want to assure them ,I am safe and secure I carry the Idea of Gorkhaland in my very being. Rest assured that […]

28th March 2018 दार्जीलिङ, २७ मार्च। मोर्चा नेत्री विनीता रोकाले विनय तामाङ र अनीत थापालाई समर्थन जनाएको छन्। गत वर्षको गोर्खाल्याण्ड आन्दोलनको बेला रोका गोर्खा जनमुक्ति नारी मोर्चा, दार्जीलिङ महकुमा समिति अध्यक्ष साथै प्रवक्ताको पदमा थिइन्। तिनी निकै दिनदेखि घरबाहिर थिइन् भने मंगलवार अचानक दार्जीलिङ प्रेस गिल्डमा पत्रकारहरूलाई सम्बोधन गर्दै तिनले विनय र अनीत गूटलाई […]

TMC charts hill revival plan Party sees chance after SC blow to Bimal Vivek Chhetri (Telegraph) Darjeeling: Trinamul has decided to renew political activities in the hills following a directive from the leadership which believes normality has returned to the region. The immediate reason is last week’s Supreme Court judgment which rejected charges of bias […]

‘His career finished… impossible for Bimal Gurung to make comeback’ – Anit Thapa The political career of Bimal Gurung, leader of one faction of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), seems to be hanging in the balance in the wake of the Supreme Court verdict as there are now very few straws left for him to clutch […]

Writes Upendra Bengal, once one of the leading lights of India – where thinkers, philosophers, scholars, reformers and revolutionaries of all hue and colour found acceptance and thrived. The land of Raja Rammohan Roy, Ramkrishna Parmahansa, Swamy Vivekananda, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, Amartya Sen; the land of which it was once said, […]

In a meeting held today which ended later in the evening, GJM has decided to observe indefinite strike across Darjeeling hills, Terai, and Dooars from Monday onwards. However, the strike will be limited only to the government establishments, including GTA. Schools and colleges have been kept completely outside of bandh purview, while banks have been […]

Kolkata: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung thumped his chest as he stood amidst his supporters and said Darjeeling was on the boil because of their fight for a homeland, a separate Gorkhaland. “There is no going back now,” he roared. Gurung’s statement, however, has taken the Hills back in time. The fight for […]

Write: Vivek Chhetri and Bireswar Banerjee Bimal Gurung yesterday said there would be repercussions if the administration indulged in excesses during the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s processions next week and asked tour operators to evacuate visitors from the hills in 30 minutes. The Morcha had announced processions with black flags from June 4 to 9 to […]

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today asked the residents of Mirik to switch off lights for two hours tomorrow evening when Mamata Banerjee will attend a government programme there. The Morcha also appealed to students and people to wear black badges during the chief minister’s tour of the hills as part of an intensified agitation against […]

HILLS TO PROTEST LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM – Two Day Education Strike Called Writes: Vivek Chhetri Bimal Gurung yesterday called a two-day education strike in the hills this week and a series of marches during the chief minister’s impending visit to protest the state government’s move to make Bengali a compulsory subject at schools. The Gorkha Janmukti […]

KOLKATA: Gurung of Gorkha Janamukti Morcha made a last ditched effort to make his presence felt and give fresh air to the now dormant Gorkhaland movement by calling for a 12-hour bandh in the Darjeeling Hills on September 28. The objective of the bandh is to demand details of Rs 4,000 crore spent in hills […]

Trinamool magic won’t work in Darjeeling hills: JAP Darjeeling, Sept. 26: In an obvious sign of relations souring up between the Jan Andolan Party and the Trinamool Congress, the JAP today rebuffed the TMC’s attempts to make inroads in the hills, asserting no national-level party would be able to usurp power in the region. The […]

Why has the demand for Gorkhaland returned to Darjeeling? Written by Aniruddha Ghosal The demand for a seperate Gorkha state is an issue that since its first origins in the 1970s has dictated politics in the hills. September 28, 2016 In 2009, Mamata Banerjee’s proximity to Bimal Gurung was a cause of great concern for […]