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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma accused West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government of diverting state resources for "Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators" and urged her removal. He claimed BJP governments in Assam and Tripura have stopped such infiltration, while alleging it continues in West Bengal. Sarma warned that without removing Banerjee, "we will lose Bengal."

The Hill town is headed for more turmoil after a few months of peace bartered by the gorkhaland Territorial Administration pact.

Former Indian football captain and 2014 Trinamool Congress candidate from Darjeeling, Bhaichung Bhutia, believes a separate gorkhaland state is necessary to “permanently” resolve the Hills problem “in an appropriate manner”.

BJP general secretary in-charge of West Bengal Kailash Vijaywarghiya on Tuesday said, “We (BJP) are not in favour of a separate gorkhaland state, but we want to protect the identity and culture of the Gorkha people and to address their development concerns."

The Nagaland Gorkha Association (NGA), in collaboration with other Gorkha organizations of the state, on Sunday held peaceful rallies as part of the 'Global gorkhaland Unity March'.

The Centre has offered tripartite talks with the gorkhaland Joint Action Committee (GJAC), agitating for a separate state of gorkhaland.

Expressing satisfaction with BJP for taking up the gorkhaland demand, some within the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) central committee are thinking of approaching him to move a motion in the Parliament.

Expressing satisfaction with BJP for taking up the gorkhaland demand, some within the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) central committee are thinking of approaching him to move a motion in the Parliament.

In his first official interaction with the media in Darjeeling, BJP candidate Jaswant Singh said his party would not "immediately jump into the pool for the gorkhaland demand".

BJP vice president and nominee for the Darjeeling LS seat, S S Ahluwalia today voiced support to the formation of a separate state of gorkhaland.

BJP MP from Assam, Ram Prasad Sarmah, has sought the Centre's intervention for the creation of gorkhaland and asked the West Bengal government to stop "atrocities" on supporters of the movement in Darjeeling.

The much-publicised tripartite talks on the Darjeeling crisis ended in a stalemate here on Monday with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha trying to confine the discussions to the gorkhaland issue.

Gurung thanked everyone for their support during the two-month-long indefinite shutdown and vowed to continue the fight till the gorkhaland dream was achieved.

The Hills parties might have been fighting for a separate gorkhaland state for several decades now, but a schoolbook for Class IV kids in the region has already declared it as the 30th state of the country.

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on Thursday asked the government to consider its demand for a gorkhaland state if it takes into consideration creation of a separate Telangana.

BJP Darjeeling MP S S Ahluwalia today raised his voice for a separate gorkhaland and wondered as to when Gorkhas living in Darjeeling can say that they are residents of their state.

A day before the fourth round of tripartite talks in Darjeeling, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday warned Gorkha leaders against being adamant on the demand for gorkhaland.

The Gorkha community in the state capital on Wednesday extended its support to the ongoing movement in Darjeeling in West Bengal, for the creation of a separate gorkhaland state.