National   

Buddhadeb: end Darjeeling bandh

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday appealed to the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) to end the bandh in the Darjeeling hills and sit for talks to discuss its demands.

Mr. Bhattacharjee expressed concern at the developments in the region in view of the bandh that entered the fifth day, paralysing life in the three hill sub-divisions. The condition of 19 of the 111 persons on fast, many since February 17, was reported to be serious.

The GJM has been joined by several regional parties in its movement for a separate Gorkhaland to be carved out of the Darjeeling hills and certain areas contiguous to it. It is demanding the immediate removal of Subhas Ghising from the post of administrator of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC) and the scrapping of the move to grant Sixth Schedule status to the region.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Mayawati hits out at Congress, BJP
Tarun Vijay to head BJP’s think tank
Ready for talks if Maoists give up arms: Naveen Patnaik
Focus may be on NREGA, debt relief for farmers
Vanzara implicated as “chief conspirator”
India-China Army exercise this year
Bangladesh Army chief’s India visit to boost ties
Arms recovery claim by CRPF questioned
Somnath announces setting up of an annual parliamentary lecture
Three new IITs and IIScs to be set up: Minister
Ruling against GO allowing 1,495 new schools set aside
Top Maoist leader remanded to police custody
Buddhadeb: end Darjeeling bandh
NSCN(I-M): no solution under Constitution
‘World Bank should fund disaster prevention projects’
Indian killed in Dubai wall collapse
A long wait for democracy
TRS chief leaves for Delhi
Indians who struck work in Dubai jailed
Chandrachoodan is RSP general secretary

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu