bimal gurung

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Subhash Ghisingh, the maverick ex-Army boxer who strode the Darjeeling Hills like a Colossus for close to 20 years, has been banished from what used to be his fief. Today, it is bimal gurung who rules the mountains. His word is law and not many dare go against it ...

Gandhibad and woman power this twin force has helped keep the current phase of the Gorkhaland agitation led by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha peaceful, said Asha Gurung, the party's Nari Morcha president and wife of GJM president bimal gurung.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) president bimal gurung held a closed-door meeting at the government guesthouse at Richmond Hill in Darjeeling on Friday.

Calcutta high court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on the anticipatory bail petition filed by GJM president bimal gurung and his wife Asha in the Madan Tamang murder case on technical grounds.

bimal gurung is one of the founders of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM). He was the chairperson of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration that governs the hilly areas - Darjeeling district and terai - in West Bengal.

GJM chief bimal gurung has been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in connection with a grenade blast at the Kalimpong police station and an explosion in Darjeeling town, the police said on Sunday.

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is spearheading the agitation, which has been going on for over two-and-a-half months in the Darjeeling hills over the demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland.

Two weeks after Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president bimal gurung's meeting with Kamtapur People's Party (KPP) general secretary Subhas Burman on January 4 over proposals to initiate parallel movements in the Hills and seven districts of north Bengal, a warning from the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) has sent ripples among the Bengali- and Hindi-speaking people in Siliguri, Alipurduar and Balurghat. In a press release, the KLO has asked all such people to leave the place by March 31 this year.

Two people including a cop and a civilian were killed, while several police personnel were injured on Friday in clashes with GJM supporters loyal to party supremo bimal gurung at a forest in the Darjeeling hills.

Subhash Ghisingh, the maverick ex-Army boxer who strode the Darjeeling Hills like a Colossus for close to 20 years, has been banished from what used to be his fief. Today, it is bimal gurung who rules the mountains. His word is law and not many dare go against it ...