Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) A permanent political solution in the hills scattered over Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Kurseong in North Bengal will be achieved by next month if the BJP comes to power in West Bengal after the Assembly elections in the state, Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, said on Tuesday.“On May 6, we will be deciding the matter and coming out with a solution which will bring smiles on the faces of our Gorkha brothers. Be it Congress or Trinamool Congress, they have left out patrioti…
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Kolkata, April 15 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that as many as three proposals for meetings during the last one and a half years to discuss the issues of people in the hills of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong in North West Bengal and the demands of the Gorkhas residing there were rejected by the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led government.He was supposed to address a public meeting at Lebong Ground in Darjeeling on Wednesday morning. However, due to the bad weather…
Kolkata, March 30 (IANS) At a time when the majority of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal, which are going to polls in two phases next month, are set to witness four-cornered contests, the three hill constituencies of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Kurseong are headed for a five-cornered contest.In most Assembly constituencies, the four principal contenders are the Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the CPI-M-led Left Front and All India Secular Front (AISF) alliance, and…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced its second list of candidates for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal, naming nominees for 111 more constituencies.With this, the party has announced a total of 255 candidates for the 294-member House. The first list, released on March 14, contained the names of candidates for 144 constituencies. The remaining 39 candidates are yet to be announced.However, it is not yet clear whether the BJP will…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) In a crucial meeting with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Nabin in Siliguri of Darjeeling district in West Bengal on Monday, the Gorkha leaders from the state had demanded either separate statehood or Union Territory (UT) status for the hills comprising of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong in North Bengal. At the end of the meeting, BJP Lok Sabha MP from Darjeeling constituency, Raju Bista, said that in the meeting, BJP President Nabin had assured that t…
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Kurseong Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district, Bishnu Prasad Sharma, who had been vocal against the party’s state leadership for quite some time, on Thursday, finally joined the ruling Trinamool Congress.He arrived at Trinamool Bhavan, the party’s state headquarters in Kolkata, on Thursday afternoon, and was officially welcomed to the ruling party by state Education Minister, Bratya Basu and Women &…
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday put an interim stay on an earlier order by its single-judge bench of cancelling 313 teaching jobs in different Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)-run schools in the hills scattered over Darjeeling, Kurseong, and Kalimpong in West Bengal. On December 17, the Calcutta High Court’s single-bench of Justice Biswajit Basu ordered the cancellation of 313 teaching jobs in GTA-run schools, saying that all these recruitments were made il…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), on Tuesday, approached a division bench of the Calcutta High Court, challenging the order by a single-judge bench of the same court earlier this month, cancelling the jobs of 313 teachers, attached to different GTA-run schools in the hills scattered over Darjeeling, Kurseong, and Kalimpong in West Bengal. The matter will be heard at the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench by the division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justi…