Darjeeling: The crisis in the Darjeeling hills on Tuesday deepened after several parties, including the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) and Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), decided to push for a separate state and unanimously adopted a resolution in favour of it.
The GJM last week had called for a meeting of all hill parties. The meeting was attended by the GJM, the GNLF, the Gorkhaland Rajya Nirman Morcha, the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (apolitical) and the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists.
“We have unanimously decided to fight for the separate state of Gorkhaland. We have also adopted a resolution in favour of it. Now our fight will not stop until and unless Gorkhaland is achieved,” GJM general secretary Roshan Giri said.
The Centre on Tuesday dispatched 600 additional para-military personnel to assist the West Bengal government in restoring normalcy in the Darjeeling hills, which witnessed incidents of stone pelting on the second day of the indefinite bandh. (PTI)
