9 Sep 2013
With the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
providing a two-day respite, market places across the hill were today
swarming with people busy collecting rations. There were long queues
before ATM counters even before the sun first peeped through.
The Haat bazaar area and ration shops in Kalimpong saw huge numbers of customers and they kept on coming even in the evening.
Similar scenes were today witnessed in
Mirik with residents of the tourist town and its surroundings thronging
the market places the entire day. ATM counters had queues snaking long
distances and banks hardly had any breathing space.
The scenes in Kurseong were not
different either and it appeared almost everyone in town was at the
market places buying essential commodities. The arterial Hill Cart Road
runs through town and traffic was moving at a snail’s pace all along the
day.
Several students who had gone home at the beginning of the agitation were seen returning back to their respective schools.
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