Hill Tamang Youth Association Accuses Tamang Development board of Excluding Community Members. A day after accusation of corruption labelled by a senior Tamang Development board member Mr. Kamal Ghising against the Chairman Sanjay Ghising and Chief Advisor Neera Lopchan, yesterday Tamang Youth Association (TYA), Darjeeling sub-division committee has also accused the TD board of not […]
Tamang Development and Cultural Board constituted
Kalimpong, 15 July 2014: Government of West Bengal has finally constituted Tamang Development and Cultural Board. Mamata Banerjee with representatives of Tamang Youth association In a government circular issued today the formation of the Board is declared. It is also published in the Kolkata Gazette on 16th July 2014. The government memo stated that ‘Tamang […]
After the Tamangs Mamata Refuses to Meet Lepcha Representatives
After snubbing the representatives from the Tamang Youth faction which had declared allegiance to TMC before the elections, by not meeting them at all on Friday. It was the turn of the ILTA representatives to bear the burnt of Mamata’s ire. Lepchas with TMC candidate Bhaichung during LS election campaign Yesterday a high level delegation […]
SELLOUTS’ DON’T REPRESENT TAMANG YOUTHS
T hese are reactions to the news that Tamang Youth Association has decided to support TMC for 2014 elections. TYA members seen with Gautam Dev and Mamata Banerjee in Mirik SANKALP LAMA I’d would like to first ask. On what basis does TYC claim to represent all the Tamang youths? Have they made any effort […]
Caste politics over Darjeeling LS seat, Trinamul tilt by Tamangs
An association of Tamangs, a community that is the largest in number in the hills, has said it will support a Trinamul candidate for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat. Since the years of Subash Ghisingh’s influence in the hills in the 1980s, no community outfit has been known to separately declare allegiance to any party […]
