Gorkha Janamukti Morcha chief Bimal Gurung, who has been aggressively pushing for a separate state for the Gorkhas

Debashis Bhattacharyya A weak sun peeps out of a veil of clouds. casting a soft glow on the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha’s office in the working class neighbourhood of Patlabas in Darjeeling. This morning the party office seems deserted except for a handful of workmen busy roofing the front yard with clear plastic sheets.   Suddenly, one of [...]

MORE THAN JUST A STYLE STATEMENT – The diktat on traditional attire violates the spirit of the movement that put the GJM on centre stage

PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA   The first time I saw the television footage of young men and women wearing daura sural and choubandi farayi milling about the Mall, I mistook Darjeeling for a remote hill town somewhere in the Northeast. Then I learnt about the dress code imposed on college students there by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha. It [...]

IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

It is time the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha engages itself in responsible politics, writes Vivek Chhetri     The demand for a separate state is being heard loudly again all over the Darjeeling hills for more than a year now. But the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, the party at the forefront of the movement, seems to have [...]

“The failure of the Tripartite movement will be better for us” Bimal Gurung

FROM THE HIMALAYAN BEACON [BEACON ONLINE] BY BARUN ROY DARJEELING: “After the 7th of November the Gorkhaland movement will be intensifed,” speaking to the people at Chowrasta, Darjeeling on the occasion of a cultural rally taken out by the people of Singla, Tukvar and Lebong Constituency, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha President, Bimal Gurung said. “There are [...]

Anti Bimal Gurung leaflet distributed in Kalimpong

“Does Bimal Gurung possess any quality of a leader? It is like chewing a stone accepting Bimal Gurung as a leader, who rules upon the people with the help of around 50 criminals.” This was according to an anti-Bimal Gurung leaflet distributed in Kalimpong yesterday. The leaflet has been signed in the name of the [...]

One to One with Bimal Gurung by www.darjeelingtimes.com

One to One with Bimal Gurung An exclusive interview of Mr. Bimal Gurung, president of Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) for the 3rd time by DT Correspondent, Mr. Udhyan Rai, at his party office, Patlebash, on 23 August, here is the extract of Interviews; please find the detail in our forth coming Magazine Section (Seventh [...]

सुभाष घीसिंग रॉ के एजेंट हैं- बिमल गुरुंग

बंगाल से अलग गोरखालैंड राज्य बनाए जाने का आंदोलन अपने चरम पर है. मार्च 2010 तक गोरखालैंड नहीं बनने पर खुद को गोली मार लेने का दावा करने वाले बिमल गुरुंग के नेतृत्व में जितनी आक्रमकता के साथ आंदोलन चल रहा है, उससे पहाड़ गरमाए हुए हैं. पहाड़ के देवता कहलाने वाले सुभाष घीसिंग को [...]

West Bengal minister seeks tourist safety in Darjeeling

Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) West Bengal Tourism Minister Manab Mukherjee has written to Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) supremo Bimal Gurung, seeking his assistance in ensuring the safety of tourists in the Darjeeling Hills. “I wrote a letter to GJM chief Bimal Gurung requesting him to bring back normalcy in Darjeeling, especially during the months of [...]

Gurung to go underground for Gorkhaland

Statesman News Service DARJEELING, July 16: The GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung today said that he would go underground for six months to carry out his “non-violent” activities. “I will go underground for six months but not to perpetrate violence. Some elements are posing a hurdle to the Gorkhaland movement. I shall keep these people [...]

विश्लेषण गोर्खाल्याण्ड उपयुक्त र सम्भव प्रस्ताव

झारखण्ड, उत्तराञ्चल र छत्तीसगढ छुट्टै राज्य भइसकेको अवस्थामा भारतमा सबभन्दा पहिले उठाइएको गोर्खाल्याण्डको माग किन पूरा नगर्ने भन्ने सोचाइमा केन्द्र सरकार पुगिसकेको छ। प्रा. महेन्द्र पी लामा झ्ण्डै २३ वर्षपछि फेरि दार्जीलिङ र डुवर्स क्षेत्रमा गोर्खाल्याण्डको आन्दोलन निकै घतलाग्दो रूपमा अघि बढिरहेको छ। यसपालि छुट्टै राज्य ल्याएरै छाड्ने अठोटसहित पहाड र डुवर्सबासी कस्सिएर आन्दोलनमा लागेका [...]