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BJP MLA Bishnu Prasad Sharma joins TMC ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls

He repeatedly raised the issue of the Gorkhaland demand and accused the party of failing to address it. (Image sourced from Darjeeling Chronicle)
kolkata news
Published on Feb 19, 2026 04:00 pm IST

BJP MLA says he'll fight as independent if party fields 'outsider' candidate in Darjeeling LS seat

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kolkata news
Published on Jan 11, 2024 09:10 am IST

The political twist in the Darjeeling hills

Bimal Gurung, head of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), speaks at a news conference, 2017
editorials
Published on Oct 23, 2020 07:59 am IST

Gorkha leader Bimal Gurung surfaces after 3 years, dumps BJP, allies with TMC

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) founder Bimal Gurung during a press conference at a hotel in Kolkata on Wednesday.
india news
Updated on Oct 21, 2020 10:12 pm IST

GJM reiterates Gorkhaland demand

A tripartite meeting was called by the Union home ministry (MHA), with GJM and the West Bengal government, to discuss issues related to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA).
india news
Updated on Oct 08, 2020 08:01 am IST

MHA to hold meeting on Gorkhaland Territorial Administration issue today

The BJP has all along promised to find a permanent political solution to the demand for a Gorkhaland, which has been raised by the Nepali-speaking Gorkhas living in the Darjeeling hills and adjoining Siliguri, the Terai and the Dooars region in north Bengal.
kolkata news
Updated on Oct 07, 2020 01:35 pm IST

Darjeeling parties surprised as Centre changes Delhi meet’s agenda from Gorkhaland to GTA

Bimal Gurung, who had founded the GJM and clamped a 104-day shutdown in the Darjeeling hills in 2017 in demand for a separate state, is on the run ever since he was charged by the state under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.
kolkata news
Published on Oct 06, 2020 09:04 am IST

Centre calls meeting on Gorkhaland at short notice; election move, says TMC

The meeting has been convened by G Kishan Reddy, Union minister of state for home affairs at the ministry’s North Block office. The state home secretary and district magistrate of Darjeeling have been asked to attend it.
india news
Updated on Oct 04, 2020 09:07 pm IST

BJP backs Bengal’s bifurcation, says TMC after fugitive Gorkha leaders’ photo with J P Nadda goes viral

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) founder Bimal Gurung who went underground more than two years ago after Bengal Police booked him for violence during the agitation for Gorkhaland in Darjeeling in 2017, reportedly attended the wedding of BJP chief J P Nadda last month.
india news
Published on Mar 09, 2020 09:07 am IST

BJP’s Darjeeling MP meets PM Modi seeking ‘permanent political solution’

Darjeeling’s BJP MP Raju Bista at his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.
india news
Published on Nov 27, 2019 11:34 pm IST

National Gorkha body demands UT status for Darjeeling hills; gets BJP lawmaker’s support

Many former army officers and bureaucrats from the Gorkha community are members of NGC.
india news
Updated on Nov 11, 2019 10:09 am IST

‘GTA is a hurdle’, says Darjeeling MP but doesn’t mention Gorkhaland demand

Darjeeling’s Lok Sabah MP Raju Bista’s election campaign as supported by two pro-Gorkhaland parties, Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) and the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM).
india news
Published on Aug 13, 2019 05:12 pm IST

Kin of 11 people killed in Gorkhaland agitation invited to PM’s swearing-in

The 11 families from the Darjeeling hills whose family members had been killed by the West Bengal police during the 2017 anti-language imperialism and Gorkhaland agitation, will be attending the inauguration of the new government.
india news
Updated on May 30, 2019 05:19 pm IST

Ahead of Darjeeling Assembly bypoll, BJP plays Gorkhaland card

Gorkhaland envisages a separate state for Gorkhas in the hills of North Bengal and some parts of the foothills as well. For the Gorkhas, it is an aspiration but the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee, as well as other parties from the plains are completely opposed to it. (Image used for representational purpose).
india news
Updated on May 18, 2019 06:52 pm IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP promises solution for Gorkha issue in Bengal, but skirts Gorkhaland

In 2017 Darjeeling and the north Bengal hills went through a 104-day shutdown demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland.
lok sabha election 2019
Updated on Apr 09, 2019 10:27 am IST

Can a green tax save India’s Himalayan towns?

A member of the Waste Warriors team, Dharamsala, June 11, 2018
analysis
Updated on Oct 15, 2018 03:01 pm IST

Meeting on Darjeeling crisis in Sept, says S S Ahluwalia; Oppn brands it poll gimmick

Paramilitary forces stand guard along a road during a strike called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha for separate state Gorkhaland in Kalimpong on September 3, 2017.
india news
Published on Aug 23, 2018 04:39 pm IST

Lessons from Darjeeling come handy in quelling Asansol unrest during Ram Navami celebrations

While politicians are continuing with the blamegame over who is responsible for the violence, the situation poses a challenge to students appearing for the Class 12 state board exams.
kolkata news
Updated on Mar 29, 2018 03:25 pm IST
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