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GJM holds rally in Siliguri

KOLKATA: The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) held a rally in Siliguri in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district on Wednesday demanding the creation of a separate State comprising the Darjeeling hills and certain areas contiguous to it.

Permission for the rally had earlier been refused by the local authorities on grounds of security but was finally granted after an indefinite hunger strike called by the GJM in protest against not being allowed to hold the rally entered its third day earlier this month. The strike was subsequently called off.

Leaders of two other political groupings — the Kamtapur Progressive Party and the Greater Coochbehar Democratic Party — both of which are also demanding a separate State to be carved out of districts of north Bengal were present at the rally.

The GJM leadership has sent a memorandum stating their demand for a separate Gorkhaland state to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, party’s general secretary, Roshan Giri, told The Hindu over telephone from Siliguri.

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