The North Bengal Passenger Transport Owners Coordination Committee (NBPTOCC) today announced an indefinite strike from Tuesday in Jalpaiguri and CoochBehar district and Siliguri sub-division of Darjeeling district. The secretary of the NBPTOCC, Pranab Mani told a press conference here that the indefinite strike has been called to protest the bad condition of roads especially the NH 31 in the three districts

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NBPTOCC calls for indefinite strike from Aug 31

The district hill Congress committee today said it would propose to the Centre to confer Union Territory status to the Darjeeling hills to end the ongoing agitation. K.B Chhetri, president of the Darjeeling district Congress (hills), said he would meet the Union home minister P. Chidambaram and place the proposal before him.

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Congress proposal for the Darjeeling Hills

Bengal urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya today accused the Centre of adopting double standards in hill matters. “We have come to know that Prime Minister, while addressing a gathering of DGPs in New Delhi yesterday, expressed concern over the ongoing agitation in the hills and sought action against law breakers,” said the minister here this afternoon. “It seems the Centre has realised that the hill issue cannot be resolved merely by negotiating with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said: “The situation in Darjeeling hill area also needs a careful watch

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Asok potshot at Centre – barb for delhi and advice too

Gangtok, Aug. 27: Seven landslides struck a 15km stretch of NH31A and crippled traffic on Sikkim’s only road link with the rest of the country after heavy rain lashed the Himalayan state last night. A 31-year-old woman was washed away in one of the flash floods that followed

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Madhuparna Das Tags : Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, Madan Tamang Posted: Thu Jul 15 2010, 00:45 hrs On the morning of May 21, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) leader Madan Tamang was killed in the heart of Darjeeling, just hours before he was scheduled to address a public meeting. This is the full transcript of the official intercepts of phone conversations between Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) president Bimal Gurung, general secretary Roshan Giri and their local cadres just before and after the killing.

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"Madan Tamang has been assaulted… Our men have done it"

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Darjeeling, June 22: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today announced that it would strengthen its picketers across the hills from tomorrow to strictly enforce the strike now that “the tourists had left” even as a group of 200-odd students from Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh are planning to return to Darjeeling after their summer break tomorrow. Binay Tamang, the assistant secretary of the Morcha, today said: “We have allowed smooth passage of tourists for the past four days and it is only expected that all tourists have left town

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Strike to go on, says Morcha – 200 students to return to hill schools today amid bandh

The district collectorate remained open for the first time today during a Gorkha Janmukti Morcha strike, the state government testing waters as the hill party kept its cadres off the roads to avoid confrontation and delink itself from the violence it has come to be associated with after Madan Tamang’s murder.

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DM reaches office in state car – Rival rally in the time of shutdown

Darjeeling, June 18: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today called an “indefinite” strike in the Darjeeling hills from tomorrow, falling back on a time-tested tactic after being forced on the backfoot since the murder of Madan Tamang. The Morcha, which had been hunting for a pretext to re-assert its strength, said the bandh had been called to protest the government’s failure to reply why police lathicharged its party supporters on Wednesday night in Kurseong. The government has been stepping up heat on Bimal Gurung’s party since Tamang’s murder on May 21

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When in doubt, call a bandh

Darjeeling, May 23: Two days after the murder of ABGL president Madan Tamang, police fear that the main accused, all members of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s frontal organisations, have taken shelter in neighbouring Sikkim.

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Murder accused in Sikkim: Cops – police promise raids in hill state

A “boy” in a white T-shirt had delivered the killer blow, driving a sharp weapon into Madan Tamang, says Laxman Pradhan, the general secretary of the ABGL, who was present at the spot. The “boy” was among the three who had reached Tamang while a mob of 100 rained stones on the others. Pradhan recounts what he saw lying on the ground before a policeman dragged him away: Things were fine that morning (Friday, May 21) and preparations were almost final.

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‘Boy’ who delivered the killer blow

DARJEELING: Faced with widespread criticism for their alleged inaction, police on Saturday registered cases against Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief Bimal Gurung, his wife and 11 senior GJM leaders for alleged involvement in Friday’s murder of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League president Madan Tamang in Darjeeling.

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Police registered FIR against senior GJMM leaders

Darjeeling, May 21: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha general secretary Roshan Giri denied his party’s role in the killing of ABGL leader Madan Tamang, saying “we do not believe in the politics of violence and killings”. But after today’s incident, the Morcha will find it increasingly difficult to shake off charges that the party indulged in violence to terrorise its political opponents in the hills as Tamang’s killing is widely being seen as the handiwork of Bimal Gurung’s outfit

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Bloodstain on Gandhian claim

May 21: As many as 10 armed policemen were on duty, but not a single shot was fired save the two by Madan Tamang’s personal security officer when over a hundred alleged Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters overran the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League’s meeting venue this morning. Senior police officers said the force — 40 personnel — posted at Clubside motor stand was enough to tackle the mob that had descended since the alleged Morcha supporters were armed only with khukuris and not the firepower the personnel had.

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May 21: The Bengal government today said it had asked the Darjeeling administration to arrest the culprits behind Madan Tamang’s murder, but gave enough indication that, like in the recent past, it would not take any action that could “precipitate” the situation in the hills. After a meeting with chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, both home secretary Samar Ghosh and director-general of police Bhupinder Singh made it clear the “sensitive” hill situation would have to be handled “carefully”. “We have sent additional state forces to Darjeeling,” Ghosh said.

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Catch culprits with caution

Darjeeling, May 21: Dissent was hacked to death in Darjeeling today, the khukuris falling mercilessly on a 62-year-old leader sitting at the venue of a public meeting in front of armed policemen. Madan Tamang, one of the few voices in the hills that had challenged the writ of current Gorkhaland-spearhead Bimal Gurung, died a grisly death at the hands of a mob a little past 9 this morning.

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Butchery of dissent Gorkha leader hacked to death at Darjeeling meet venue guarded by armed policemen

Siliguri, May 21: The murder of the ABGL chief has sent tourists scurrying downhill and shivers down the stakeholders of the tourism industry who fear that the season has died an early death. “We have no clue as to what we should do. The news has prompted our counterparts and clients from different locations to call us and cancel (their bookings),” said Samrat Sanyal, the general secretary of the Eastern Himalaya Travel and Tour Operators’ Association.

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Tamang death takes toll on hill tourism