Indefinite bandh called in Darjeeling over Gorkhaland
2 Aug 2013 5:00 AM IST
An indefinite bandh has been called in Darjeeling Hills by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) from Saturday to press its demand for a separate Gorkhaland state, a day after Congress and its allies unanimously decided to create Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh.
‘If there can be a Telangana state then why not a Gorkhaland? We are demanding that our 107-year-old legitimate demand (for a separate state) be fulfilled,’ GJM general secretary and spokesman RoshanGiri told reporters after a party core committee meeting here on Wednesday.
GJM members in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), from which its CEO and GJM chief Bimal Gurung quit on Tuesday, would continue for now and six members of the party, including three MLAs from the hills would leave for Delhi on Friday to meet the MPs of various parties and apprise them of the Gorkhaland demand.
'We are carrying out a peaceful agitation through democratic means for statehood of Gorkhaland. If the state government represses it we will intensify our agitation ... We will continue our agitation ... at any cost, any sacrifice till we get our Gorkhaland,' he said.
‘If there can be a Telangana state then why not a Gorkhaland? We are demanding that our 107-year-old legitimate demand (for a separate state) be fulfilled,’ GJM general secretary and spokesman RoshanGiri told reporters after a party core committee meeting here on Wednesday.
GJM members in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), from which its CEO and GJM chief Bimal Gurung quit on Tuesday, would continue for now and six members of the party, including three MLAs from the hills would leave for Delhi on Friday to meet the MPs of various parties and apprise them of the Gorkhaland demand.
'We are carrying out a peaceful agitation through democratic means for statehood of Gorkhaland. If the state government represses it we will intensify our agitation ... We will continue our agitation ... at any cost, any sacrifice till we get our Gorkhaland,' he said.
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