Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political rally in Cooch Behar tomorrow, two BJP candidates Raju Bista for Darjeeling and Sukanta Majumdar for Balurghat filed their nomination papers, today.
BJP candidate for Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat Raju Bista started campaigning throughout the day in different areas in Siliguri today to retain his seat for the second time.
The BJP has finally announced its candidates for three Lok Sabha seats in North Bengal. The sitting MP Dr Jayanta Roy will contest from Jalpaiguri for a second time.
The raid yielded Rs 27.90 crore in unaccounted for cash and Rs 4.31 crore in gold, apart from incriminating documents.
Following Independence, West Bengal was one of the more developed states in India, contributing over 30 percent to the national GDP.
According to Mr Bista, the Union Home Ministry will be sending out invitation letters for the talks within the next two weeks.
According to GNLF leader Ajoy Edwards, he would leave for Delhi within a week to try and set up a meeting of its alliance partners and representatives from the civil society with senior leaders of the BJP.
"The list of issues that will be discussed in the monsoon session of Parliament has come out, and it is unfortunate that no issue of the Gorkhas has been mentioned there. Recently, tribal status to different communities was granted in Arunachal Pradesh, but the MP has not done anything regarding the demand for tribal status for 11 different communities here," AIGL general secretary SP Sharma said.
The Coronation Bridge that connects the critical 'Chicken Neck' region of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Siliguri, Sikkim to Jalpaiguri, Alipurduars, Cooch Behar and the rest of North East was built in the year 1937.
Talking to reporters in Kurseong in Darjeeling, Mr Bista also made it clear that he would "never come" for GTA election campaigning.
