Trinamul to speak for Sikkim in Parliament

Gangtok, Nov. 1: Sikkim Trinamul Congress president P.T. Lucksum today said party MPs from Bengal would raise the issues affecting the Himalayan state in Parliament. The Sikkim unit of Trinamul was formed in September. “We met Trinamul general secretary Mukul Roy and north Bengal development minister Gautam Deb in Darjeeling recently. They told us that all issues related to Sikkim would be taken up by Trinamul MPs in Parliament. The party MPs can raise matters related to our state with the President also,” Lucksum told journalists...

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Morcha trio fail to meet Tamang

Nov. 1: A Gorkha Janmukti Morcha delegation was today denied permission twice to call on arrested GTA Sabha member Binay Tamang in the Jalpaiguri district hospital. First, health officials disallowed three Morcha leaders from meeting Tamang around 11 in the morning, citing the patient’s deteriorating condition. Later in the evening, the Morcha leaders went to the hospital armed with the permission of the additional district magistrate. But this time, the police personnel on duty outside Tamang’s room said the visit couldn’t be allowed...

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Votes apart, I need your hearts and minds: Mahendra Lama

KALIMPONG 1 Nov 2013 Noted academician Dr. Mahendra P Lama, who has announced of contesting in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls as an independent candidate, was today in Monsong for a meeting arranged by his fan club. On a self-campaign mission, Lama stressed he wants not just people’s votes, but also their hearts and minds. “You may be thinking I have come here to ask for votes. Yes, that’s true, but I don’t want just that. I want your hearts and mind too,” he said, adding, “I am not a political leader, I just want to work ...

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ACTIVIST ARREST ISSUE,GJM mulls meeting Narayanan

Darjeeling 1 Nov 2013 The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leadership is reportedly planning to meet Governor MK Narayanan who is currently on an 18-day visit to the Darjeeling hills. The leaders intend to seek his intervention in getting arrested party leaders and activists released. Sources from within the GJM said the arrest and judicial custody of the leaders is a matter of grave concern and needs to be addressed at the earliest. “Now that relations between the GJM and state government have warmed up again, party supporters are getting...

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BGP to launch youth wing soon

PRADIP LOHAGUN KALIMPONG 1 Nov 2013 The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh has begun campaigns to connect youths to the organisation. It held an interactive programme today with likeminded youths here at the Gorkha Dukha Niwarak Sammellan Hall in the presence of BGP National president Dr. Enos Das Pradhan and Kalimpong unit secretary Pravakar Dewan, among others. The event, which was attended by a large number of youths, also discussed about the formation of a BGP youth wing and this was welcomed unanimously. Stating that the...

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Morcha, Trinamul in rice row - Civic chairman says GTA Trinamul nominee came uninvited

Darjeeling, Oct. 31: A rice distribution event for the poor became a venue of political tussle today when Morcha civic councillors objected to the presence of a Trinamul-nominated GTA Sabha member. The event was organised by the state food and supplies department and the Darjeeling municipality, which is dominated by the Morcha, and saw in Milan Dukpa’s presence a Trinamul tactic to interfere in government events. The row has happened when Trinamul is trying to fill a political void as the Morcha has no tough opposition in the region....

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अभिव्यक्तिको खतरा उठाउँदै सड़कमा कविहरू

कालेबुङ, 30 अक्टोबर। ‘बन्दुकले कसलाई मार्छ? मान्छे कि मानवता?’ मङ्पूका पट्ठो कवि आशिशदीप राईले सोधेको यो प्रश्‍न थाना अघिल्तिर उभिएका स्रोताहरूतिर फर्खिएको थियो, स्रोताहरू भने कवितिर। तर कविता भने घरि बन्दुक हातमा बोकेर थाना प्राङ्गनमा उभिएका जवानहरूतिर फर्किरहेको थियो घरि त्यही बन्दुकदेखि डराउने निर्दोष स्रोताहरूतिर। कालेबुङका युवा कविहरूले कालेबुङ थाना अगिल्तिर नै ‘हस्तक्षेप जमातको सडक अवतरण’ भन्दै ‘सडकमा कविता’ आयोजना गरेका थिए। जहाँ उभिएर युवा कवि आशिषले कवितामा भने, ‘आफ्नै हातले संविधान लेखेपछि देशबाटै किनारा लागेको म अरिबहादुर।’ अरिबहादुरको...

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Budding poets at public place draws ample attraction

Kalimpong, Oct 30: Away from the regular speech from political icons everyday, the general people of this hamlet town found anew set of orators at Tricone Park giving in a full house audience to find deep grievances on political situation, social issues and many more through poems penned by budding poets of the sub-division. Reciting poems on public places is not generally the facade of the hills and with budding poets taking the cue on Wednesday attracting full house audience showed the people’s frustration listening to the same speech...

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GNLF loses office in Darjeeling

Darjeeling, Oct. 28: The Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), which had on Saturday opened its first office in Darjeeling after five years, lost the address today after the lease holder of the building removed the party’s festoons. GNLF leaders could not be contacted for comment. Lease holder Basant Rai’s family said the building was a low-cost hotel run by Rai. They claimed that Rai was under the impression that the people who had taken...

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AIGL leader Khati condemns GJM for failing in every aspect

PRADIP LOHAGUN KALIMPONG 28 Oct 2013 All India Gorkha League general secretary Pratap Khati today accused the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leadership of failing in every aspect of its statehood agitation. According to Khati, he now sees the possibility of the formation of an alliance comprising both political and non-political groups for the statehood cause. He also urged all political and apolitical parties in the hills to carefully analyse the present political situation and formulate strategies accordingly. Commenting on...

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Kalimpong court gives bail to school principal

PRADIP LOHAGUN KALIMPONG 28 Oct 2013 The Kalimpong SJM court today granted bail to Prakash Pradhan, the principal of a renowned school here in Kalimpong, who had been accused of offering refuge to some members of the GJM-affiliated Vidhyarthi Morcha. Pradhan’s bail was approved after he deposited the amount levied as penalty. A case had been lodged at the Kalimpong police station against Pradhan accusing him of giving refuge to the GJM’s student wing’s members who had arrived in Kalimpong on foot some weeks ago from Darjeeling....

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शहरमा गोराक-को पोष्टर, एकिकरणको मुद्दा

कालेबुङ 27 अक्टोबर सिक्किम दार्जीलिङ एकिकरणको मुद्दा अघि ल्याउँदै आज गोर्खा राष्ट्रीय कंग्रेसले(गोराक) कालेबुङ शहरको विभिन्न स्थानहरुमा व्यापक पोष्टरीङहरु गरेको छ। शहरमा आज देखा परेको उक्त दलको पोष्टरहरुमा पार्टीले बंगालले सन् 1986मा जारी गरेको श्वेत पत्रमा दार्जीलिङ अनि डुवर्सका भुभागहरु सिक्किम र भुटानको हो भन्ने प्रमाण भएको दावी गर्दै एकिकरणको मांग गरेको छ। गोर्खा राष्ट्रीय कंग्रेसले(गोराक)  पोष्टरहरुमा दार्जीलिङ-डुवर्स बंगालको नभएर सिक्किमको...

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Gurung adheres to CM’s no-strike line Statehood demand ‘when needed’

Darjeeling, Oct. 27: Bimal Gurung today said he would continue to raise the demand for a separate state “as and when needed” but there would be no strikes. “I will continue to raise the Gorkhaland demand as and when needed as I have come forward for Gorkhaland and we will never drop the demand. The agitation would be peaceful, without strikes, as I do not believe in the politics of violence,” the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief said. Today’s...

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Trinamul steps up tempo

Siliguri, Oct. 27: The Trinamul Congress has decided to increase organisational activities in the Darjeeling hills by forming committees at different levels and a cultural wing . The party will also send a delegation to New Delhi to seek a special financial package from the Centre for the hills. Trinamul’s move to cement its organisational strength in the hills has come on the heels of the first political meeting attended by Mamata Banerjee in Darjeeling on Thursday. The decisions on the increased organisational activities was taken...

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पहाड़मा तृणमूल अनि मोर्चाबीच तनाउ जारी

कालेबुङ, 26 अक्टोबर(प्रदीप) राज्यको तृणमूल सरकार र जीटीएको सत्तासिन दल मोर्चाबीच मिलेर काम गर्ने सहमति बनिए पनि दुवै दलको तृणमूल स्तरका नेतृत्व र कार्यकर्ताहरुबीच तनाउ जारी रहेको छ। मोर्चाको विद्यार्थी संगठनसँग आबद्ध रहेको कालेबुङ कलेज स्टुडेण्ट युनियनले आज यहाँका केही तृणमूल नेता र कार्यकर्ताहरूविरुद्ध कालेबुङ थानामा प्राथमिकी दर्ता गरेको घटनाले तनाउ देखा परेको हो। कालेबुङ कलेज परिसरमा परीक्षा चलिरहेको अवधीमा तृणमूल कार्यकर्ताहरूले नाराबाजी गरेको...

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