GJM calls three-day bandh to press for ‘Gorkhaland’


Kolkata, Dec 10 (PTI) With the Centre conceding to the demand for a Telangana state bifurcating Andhra Pradesh, the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) today said its demand for a separate ‘Gorkhaland’ should also be allowed and announced a three-day bandh in Darjeeling hills from December 14.

“Since Telangana, on the lines of the Gorkhaland statehood demand, has been approved by the Centre, our demand for a separate state carved out of West Bengal should also be conceded by the Centre,” GJM General Secretary Roshan Giri told PTI from Darjeeling.

“Ours is a 102-year-old demand. We should be given justice and we have called a three-day bandh from December 14 in Darjeeling to press for it,” Giri, who left for Delhi as the head of a four-member GJM team to take up the issue, said.