Tag: Bimal Gurung

Ahead of Bimal Gurung’s return, aide Roshan Giri to visit Darjeeling to gauge ground

Ever since Bimal Gurung made a dramatic appearance and joined hands with TMC, anti-Gurung faction leader Binay Tamang has made their dissatisfaction public.

November 28, 2020

Darjeeling civic board ‘councillors’ back in Gurung camp

Sharing the dais with Morcha leader Bimal Gurung in Kolkata today, the councillors announced their return to the party and alleged that the BJP that they had supported did nothing for the Hills.

November 6, 2020

Will he? Will he not? People in Hills now wonder

"I really don't know if it is possible for Bimal Gurung to return to the Hills before Diwali or in late November," an observer of Hill politics said today.

November 5, 2020

BJP, CPI(M), Congress attack Mamata Banerjee on Bimal Gurung-Binay Tamang issue

The remarks from BJP, CPI(M) and Congress came after West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee met with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leader Binay Tamang.

November 4, 2020

Tamang camp keeps up tirade against Gurung

eaders say Bimal acts were based on 'falsehood'; they call him a betrayer

November 1, 2020

Mamata Banerjee calls Binay Tamang, other anti-Bimal Gurung Gorkha leaders for meeting

It is believed that the Mamata Banerjee will call for a truce between factions of Gorkha leaders Bimal Gurung and Binay Tamang in her meeting.

October 31, 2020

Bharati Tamang opposes Gurung Hill return

According to Bharati Tamang, even the people in Darjeeling are not happy with the present developments.

October 31, 2020

Binay Tamang, Anit Thapa’s factions of GJM protest against Bimal Gurung in Darjeeling

On Sunday, the youth wing of Bimal Tamang and Anik Thapa's factions held a huge rally in Darjeeling's Sonada in West Bengal, protesting against Bimal Gurung

October 26, 2020

Want encounter of Bimal Gurung, says parents of police officer who died in operation to catch Gorkha leader

Even though the West Bengal government in 2017 had alleged that Gurung played a role Malik's murder, he was missing from the chargesheet filed in 2018. 

October 23, 2020

Bimal appearance: Police authority undermined’

"Being the chief minister of West Bengal, had Mamata Banerjee instructed the Police Commissioner to arrest Bimal Gurung from Salt Lake without compromising on anything, her political efficacy, administrative acumen and caliber would have gone far more brighter, and ahead of the 2021 Assembly elections, her position would have been more secured," former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pankaj Datta said.

October 23, 2020

Trinamul welcomes Bimal move

"We welcome Bimal Gurung's commitment to peace and decision to withdraw support from NDA, while reposing faith in Mamata Banerjee's leadership. BJP's attempts to use Gorkhaland issue for petty politics and teir untrustworthy nature now lay fully exposed before people of Bengal," the party said in its official Twitter handle.

October 22, 2020

Bista predicts more pol developments

The leader of the other faction of the Morcha, Anit Thapa, said that today's development had showed how Mr Gurung had misled the people.

October 22, 2020

Bimal Gurung joins hands with Mamata Banerjee again, quits NDA ahead of 2021 polls

After a day of wide ranging speculations in Kolkata, Gurung officially declared his departure from the NDA in a press conference on Wednesday evening.

October 21, 2020

What did you do for Hills? Morcha team asks BJP

A seven-member delegation of the party today met Union Minister of state for Home affairs G Kishan Reddy in Delhi in a meeting called by the Centre to discuss "issues related to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration" (GTA).

October 8, 2020

Centre actively looking at solution for Hills’

Kailash Vijayvargiya wants state to roll back lockdown dates to facilitate exams

August 31, 2020

BJP has promised to look into our Gorkhaland demand: Bimal Gurung

Statehood is a dream for every Gorkha living in the Hills, he said, adding that the saffron party's pitch for a permanent political solution was also "very encouraging".

April 14, 2019

BJP might not field SS Ahluwalia from Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat

"I feel bad that my statements hurt the sentiments of several Gorkha brothers and sisters and I sincerely apologise for that," he said in a statement on Saturday.

March 5, 2019