Kalimpong : Believing in the promise of Gorkhaland, people of the hills in West Bengal voted for a BJP candidate in 2009. This poll season, with the dream of a separate state still not fulfilled, the people are however yet to decide between the development promised by the state’s ruling TMC and giving the BJP […]

Sukna: The demand for a separate state in the Darjeeling hills is legitimate and constitutionally valid, BJP Lok Sabha candidate SS Ahluwalia on Sunday said. Shri S.S Ahluwalia in Sukna GJM  public meeting. Addressing an election rally at Sukna, near Siliguri, Ahluwalia, the BJP nominee from Darjeeling constituency, said in the presence of Gorkha Janmukti […]

BJP candidate from the Darjeeling parliamentary constituency, Surinder Singh Ahluwalia, today sought to debunk Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s strident stand against the creation of a Gorkhaland state saying she had supported the idea of creating smaller states when she was a minister in the NDA government. JP candidate Ahluwalia speaking to a resident in […]

Darjeeling: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president, Bimal Gurung, today said he had promised the hill people Gorkhaland by March 10, 2010, in the belief that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance would come to power in 2009. Gurung addresses a Morcha meet at Alubari-Phulbari in Darjeeling on Friday. “There was some thought behind my March 10 […]

Jan Aawaz seeks clear stance on Gorkhaland, GTA before extending support. Jan Aawaz, an apolitical organisation, has sought clarification from the Darjeeling constituency Lok Sabha candidates over the issues of statehood and repealing of the GTA. Organisation members met in Delhi on Tuesday and resolved to seek the stance of the candidates on the two […]

Gorubathan: Sending out a strong message against bifurcation of the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said Darjeeling is an integral part of it and blamed Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) of trying to play divisive politics without bothering about the development of the hills. West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee […]

S. S Ahluwalia BJP candidate from Darjeeling talks to the press on Gorkhaland. He says, There a seven assembly constituencies in Darjeeling and if we see the demography of these constituencies then it is like a Mini Bharat (mini-india). Darjeeling statehood demand Gorkhaland by no means is an unconstitutional demand.When GJM (Gorkha Janmukti Morcha ) declared its support to BJP Mamata […]

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung today renewed the Gorkhaland demand for Darjeeling and said it was necessary for the national identity and security of Gorkhas in the country. Bimal Gurung renewed the Gorkhaland demand The decision to support the BJP for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat was a result of the need for national […]

SUKHAY-POKHARI- Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president and GTA chief executive Bimal Gurung was today in Nagari-Dhaje to address a public meeting where he claimed the GJM is a party formed for the formation of a separate state of Gorkhaland. GTA chief executive Bimal Gurung. Stressing on the necessity of statehood formation for national identity and security […]

A day after BJP nominee for the Darjeeling LS seat S S Ahluwalia voiced his support in favour of a separate state of Gorkhaland, BJP leader Tathagata Roy today said the party’s state unit is not in its favour and Ahluwalia’s comment was blown out of context. Tathagata Roy “We, the West Bengal BJP unit, is not […]

Gorkhaland – The BJP candidate from Darjeeling, Surinder Singh Ahluwalia, has said that outright rejection of the demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland was the “manifestation of a dictatorial attitude that cannot be accommodated in a democratic system”. SS Ahluwalia speak in two voices on Gorkhaland The 63-year-old national vice-president of BJP, who was […]

Alleging misuse of administrative machinery by Trinamool Congress, BJP today sought “urgent intervention” of Election Commission of India to prevent the arrest of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders and supporters who are supporting BJP’s candidate S S Ahluwalia in Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. BJP’s candidate S S Ahluwalia in Darjeeling Lok Sabha In […]

Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that he supports formation of a separate Vidarbha state, but is opposed to the idea of carving out Gorkhaland and Bodoland. Union Minister Jairam Ramesh Ramesh, who had just days ago made a strong pitch for division of Uttar Pradesh, said that the state was ungovernable in its present […]

BJP state president Rahul Sinha today said the party MP, if elected from the Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency, will address the problems of the people in the Hills, but will in no way work for a bifurcation of the state. Rahul Sinha BJP “We are happy about the BJP-GJMM) tie-up and we are hopeful that […]

Tilak Rai, the Mirik unit convener of the Darjeeling Dooars United Development Foundation, today accused the BJP of not remaining loyal to the cause of a Gorkhaland state. He accused MP Jaswant Singh of remaining silent even as the Telangana Bill was being approved by the Cabinet. DDUDF Mirik convenor Tilak Prakash Rai. Commenting on […]

It is Darjeeling hills- at the vortex of turmoil political dynamics. The latest major element in the political game here is formation of a series of development boards, tagged with almost every single ethnic community. No matter how far this can cool down the hills – burning with separate statehood movement, but it can definitely […]

The Centre today told the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha that its request for a committee to look into the Gorkhaland demand, on the lines of a similar panel on Bodoland, could be considered only if Mamata Banerjee agreed to it. Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who met a five-member Morcha delegation in Delhi today, later […]

After supporting Congress over the passing of Telangana Bill in Parliament, BJP today said the issue of Gorkhaland in West Bengal was not related to Telangana. “The issue of Gorkhaland should not be connected with Telangana. The people of Telangana were much deprived although the region contributed most to the state’s income,” BJP national spokesperson […]