FACT: Official intercepts of phone conversations between top leaders of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) and local cadres point to their alleged complicity in the murder of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) leader Madan Tamang on May 21 morning, hours before he was to address a public meeting.An official of the West Bengal Home Department said voice verification had been carried out and the callers had been identified as GJM president Bimal Gurung, general secretary Roshan Giri and some local leaders —a few were named in the FIR filed by ABGL. (The Financial Express, 18 July 2010).
Accusing the Left Front government in West Bengal of ignoring the Darjeeling Hills, senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Friday demanded creation of a separate Gorkhaland. (zee News, 24 July 2009).
(ANI Jan 26 2011): Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) General Secretary Roshan Giri has termed the discussions with Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the formation of a separate Gorkhaland state as fruitful. Giri who led a delegation of his outfit said: "We had a detailed discussion on our demand with the Home Minister. The meeting was held in a cordial atmosphere and was very positive."
The agreement arrived at by the West Bengal government and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) suggesting that the newly elected administrative body being proposed for the Darjeeling hills be called the “Gorkhaland Territorial Administration” is being considered by the latter a “moral victory” for more than a single reason.Not only has the draft of the “memorandum of agreement” been signed by the two sides without the GJM having to drop its demand for a separate ‘Gorkhaland' State; implicit in the inclusion of the term ‘Gorkhaland' in the nomenclature for the new set-up is an acknowledgement by the State government of what the GJM has been highlighting as the aspirations of the local people for a “separate Gorkha identity.” (The Hindu, July 11 2011).
MY COMMENT: DIDI’S POLITICAL STAND ON HILLY LAND. GORKHALAND WILL BE SWITZERLAND.
