Bimal taken to hospital BJP-GJM ‘closeness’ fuel speculations in Hills
“India is still a democratic country and people have the freedom to choose the hospital they want to get treated in,” Mr Raju Bista said.
“India is still a democratic country and people have the freedom to choose the hospital they want to get treated in,” Mr Raju Bista said.
"My family is also happy and there is no fight between me and my wife. Do not spread rumours that I have an affair. If you have any proof, then do come forward with it," he said in the letter.
At the programme today, homage was paid to the Bhanu Bhakta statue at Chowrasta by TMC leaders like Gautam Deb, the chairman of the Board of Administrators at the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, and Bulu Chik Baraik, the Minister of State for Backward Classes Welfare and Tribal Development Department.
Even while he said this, Mr Giri added that they took up the issue of a Permanent Political Solution (PPS) with state government ministers, which they meant was either Gorkhaland, UT or 244-A, the Article that allows for creation of an 'autonomous state' within Assam in certain tribal areas.
Along with Mr Khanal, those who left the party today included central committee leaders Norden Lama and Praveen Rahapal, and Kalimpong district committee office secretary Saran Pradhan.
According to Mr Tamang, the step was being taken to strengthen the party, postAssembly elections.
The announcement comes days after the other camp of the Morcha led by Bimal Gurung said that it would announce the names of their candidates for the Hill seats on 23 March.
A notification issued by the Home and Hill Affairs Department of the government today said that the last extended tenure of the GTA will expire on 19 March and that the new six-month tenure would begin on 20 March.
The programme was organised by the BJP in association with the Gorkha National Liberation Front also consisted of a public meeting at the Motor Stand here, after which the leaders led the ‘yatra’ towards Sonada, Kurseong and Sukna down in the plains.
Moreover, when a section of political observers here has been calculating the fate of the Trinamul Congress as well as another Morcha leader Bimal Gurung (minus the BJP), after the state decided to withdraw cases against him, Darjeeling MP Raju Bista, who led the 'parivartan yatra' in Kalimpong today, said "people's love for the BJP and hate for the TMC was palpable, wherever we are going."
