The Indian Gorkhas have to decide now as to what they really want and where they want to go from here. While India vies for a global position, various communities in the country are reasserting their roles and striving to get maximum mileage from the country’s global entry. Many of them have already devoured the […]
Janmukti Asthayi Karmachari Sangathan confines GTA officials to their chambers at Lal Kothi
DARJEELING 15 Jun 2016 Members of the Janmukti Asthayi Karmachari Sangathan (JAKS), an umbrella organisation of casual workers, today confined the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration chief principal secretary and a sabhasad to their chambers at Lal Kothi pressing for enhanced incentives. More than 200 Group A and B employees comprising doctors, engineers, managers and curators of […]
GTA Casual workers threaten agitation over regularization issue
Darjeeling 12 May 2016 Casual workers employed in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) today threatened to start an agitation next month to pursue their long-pending demand for regularization. The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha-affiliated Janmukti Asthai Karmachari Sangathan (JAKS), today held a ‘pratanidhi sabha’ or a representatives’ meeting and passed a resolution to take up the regularisation […]
Gorkhaland is only our Solution & “NOTA” is only our Option !
Writes Gorkhas N Gorkhaland No Candidate Deserves My Vote! No State No Vote ! Beware of Vote ! Vote is our Enemy ! Gorkhaland is only our Solution & “NOTA” is only our Option ! NOTA, (None of the Above) also known as “against all”, is a ballot option in Indian electoral system, designed to […]
Gorkhaland and the Curse of Political Invisibility
Writes Mouli Banerjee I have the first thirty seconds of introduction to a new person, more often than not, well-rehearsed by now. I pronounce my name the way it was intended, receive a blank look, smile and say “Call me Molly.” They ask, “Are you from Kolkata?” “No,” I say, “I’m from Siliguri,” *wait for […]
All India Nepali Schedule Caste Association GTA Reservation Demand – Threaten Agitation
Writes: Vivek Chhetri The All India Nepali Schedule Caste Association today threatened to launch a dharna at Nabanna and a hunger strike after that if the state failed to start the process of amending the GTA Act in a month to provide seat reservation for the community in the hill body. Today, 1,000-odd members of […]
GNLF Mann Ghisingh’s controversal statement on cultural dress
Writes: Vivek Chhetri The president of the Gorkha National Liberation Front in a press release today termed the traditional dress of the Nepali community as the the official dress of Nepal, eliciting criticism from all hill parties. GNLF president Mann Ghisingh controversal statement on traditional dress of Daura Sural and Chowbandi Choli -Photo of the […]
GNLF chief Ghisingh, who gave birth to Gorkhaland, died in Delhi
Ashis Chakrabarti So he died as he knew he would – in exile, far away from the kingdom that had once been his and that he had lost to a onetime vassal. But in death, he may be luckier than his wife, who was denied the privilege of having her last rites performed back at […]
