GJM negotiators will be hanged: UGPF

The United Gorkha Revolutionary Front, a Gorkha outfit, on Thursday threatened to 'hang' Gorkha Jan Mukti Morkha negotiators if they failed to secure a separate Gorkhaland state at the December 21 tripartite talks with the Center.

The United Gorkha Revolutionary Front (UGRF), a Gorkha outfit, on Thursday threatened to 'hang' Gorkha Jan Mukti Morkha (GJM) negotiators if they failed to secure a separate Gorkhaland state at the December 21 tripartite talks with the Center.

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"The GJM negotiators will be deemed as traitors and hanged in the event of their failure to usher in a separate state for the Gorkha people," the UGRF President Ajay Dahal said in a statement in Gangtok.

The Gorkha community is pinning its hope that their long standing aspiration for a separate state will be fulfilled at the talks, he said, adding creation of the Gorkhaland state will be a 'fitting tribute' to those pro-statehood supporters who have laid down their lives for the cause in the past decades.

Dahal also threatened to launch a militant struggle on the statehood demand in the wake of an unsatisfatory outcome at the crucial tripartite talks later this month.