The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Kalimpong, Sept. 1: Leaders with GNLF links, past and present, have welcomed the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung's call for a dialogue to ensure that they are no longer socially boycotted in the hills.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Darjeeling, Aug. 31: Bimal Gurung today said the social boycott of people owing allegiance to the GNLF must end through an agreement in which they would have to pledge their support for Gorkhaland.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... had fled by then,” he said.The GNLF leader, who is yet to lodge a complaint, said Morcha president Bimal Gurung had two days ago said Opposition leaders would no longer be harassed in the hills. “But even then this has happened.”Morcha’s publicity secretary Binoy Tamang said he has asked the party’s Kurseong unit vice-president Suraj Pradhan to inquire into the incident. Hunger strikeIn...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Darjeeling, Sept. 4: A former GNLF councillor has been granted primary membership of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha. N.B. Pradhan’s house, however, was searched in his presence before he was inducted into the party. Pradhan’s induction into the Morcha is the first such instance since Bimal Gurung announced that it was time the social boycott of the GNLF leaders ended. The Morcha chief had...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... to retain the post since his candidature is believed to have been okayed by Morcha president Bimal Gurung.Lama said he did not expect any dark horse to emerge between now and the board meeting. “I am yet to decide the date of the meeting,” he told The Telegraph after taking the oath.On January 24, former chairman C.K. Kumai, then with the GNLF, had defeated an Opposition-sponsored...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Darjeeling, Sept. 3: Bimal Gurung has decided not to attend the tripartite talks to be held in New Delhi on September 8.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
... with those who will be part of the delegation on September 4 to work out the modalities,” said Bimal Gurung, the Morcha president who chaired the meeting attended by 12 political outfits. “We will discuss only Gorkhaland and nothing else at the tripartite meeting. We are also taking representatives of the Adivasi community from Siliguri and the Dooars.”The hill outfits have decided...
