The Calcutta high court on Wednesday rapped the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha(GJM) over the crisis created in the hills due to indefinite strike, which entered its 10th day on Wednesday.
The chief justice of the Calcutta high court Arun Mishra said that people of the hills were entitled to their basic rights and supply of essential commodities like food, medicine, education should be restored. ‘The strike is illegal. Will the Morcha pay compensation? Are you people for the hills or against it?’ the court submitted. The Morcha will have to furbish a reply via an affidavit by 5 September.
Meanwhile, the Lok Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday till 2 pm after an altercation between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress on the Darjeeling issue.
During zero hour, as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Jaswant Singh raised the issue of autonomy to Darjeeling, Trinamool members got agitated and tried to shout him down. The TDP MPs also raised anti-Telangana slogans near the speaker’s podium.
In Darjeeling, normal life appears to be suspended, as the GJM continued to press their demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland. GJM announced a new form of two-day protest called ‘janta curfew’ with people voluntarily remaining indoors. The streets wore a deserted look and nothing except some pharmaceutical shops remained open.
The chief justice of the Calcutta high court Arun Mishra said that people of the hills were entitled to their basic rights and supply of essential commodities like food, medicine, education should be restored. ‘The strike is illegal. Will the Morcha pay compensation? Are you people for the hills or against it?’ the court submitted. The Morcha will have to furbish a reply via an affidavit by 5 September.
Meanwhile, the Lok Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday till 2 pm after an altercation between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress on the Darjeeling issue.
During zero hour, as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Jaswant Singh raised the issue of autonomy to Darjeeling, Trinamool members got agitated and tried to shout him down. The TDP MPs also raised anti-Telangana slogans near the speaker’s podium.
In Darjeeling, normal life appears to be suspended, as the GJM continued to press their demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland. GJM announced a new form of two-day protest called ‘janta curfew’ with people voluntarily remaining indoors. The streets wore a deserted look and nothing except some pharmaceutical shops remained open.