KalimNews: GJMM think tanks and Central Committee members are resigning from the party. Stalwarts of GJMM Trilok Dewan, Dr. C.K.Subba, C.R.Rai, Palden Lama and Narayan Thapa the members of study forum resigned from GJMM. They have resigned from the party in protest against the murder of Madan Tamang the slain ABGL leader. It is reminded that Anmole Prasad was the first to resign from the party.Nobdy has accused GJMM as involved in the assassination of Tamang. More resignation is expected within a day or two.
Today in Darjeeling thousands of people of Darjeeling town and vicinity participated in a funeral procession which condemned GJMM and shouted slogans like down with GJMM and Bimal Gurung the murderers, Amar Lama leave the party and join us, Bimal Gurung will not be allowed to enter Darjeeling. The crowd numbering more than fifty thousand joined in groups. The rally with the dead body of Late Tamang started from his residence. It was rested at the ABGL party Office and Chowrasta and later brought to his ancestral home in Meghma. The crowd declared that they had left the GJMM and tore GJMM flags on their way. The situation was very emotional and tense, people were highly charged and accusing the GJMM leaders but no untoward incident is reported.
People all over the hills and plains are condemning the murder of ABGL leader and welcomed the commissioning of CBI enquiry in the murder.Citizens pay homage to slain Gorkha Leader
KalimNews : Citizens of Kalimpong today paid their homage to slain Gorkha leader MadanTamang by organising a peace march in the town. The peace march organised under the aegis of Citizens Right Forum commenced from the Town Hall and after parading a round of the town culminated into a condolence meeting at Thana Dara where the Forum's president addressed the bereaved wellwishers of late Tamang.
While addressing about 500 local people including students of various educational institutions 84 year old senior citizen N.P. Dikshit said that the people are the strongest pillar of the democracy and no one should underestimate their strength. He stated that now onwards the restoration of the democracy in the hills has become the responsibility of the peaceloving and educated, conscious people. The representatives of political organisations, social and volunteer bodies had gathered in the town to pay their respect to late Tamang despite heavy downpour since early this morning.
Peace Rally organised by Citizens’ Right Forum of KALIMPONG Pix: Samten, Samiran and Hira
PEACE RALLY Organised by students of NBU, Siliguri Pic: DK WaibaMurder accused in Sikkim
TT, Darjeeling, May 23: Two days after the murder of ABGL president Madan Tamang, police fear that the main accused, all members of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s frontal organisations, have taken shelter in neighbouring Sikkim. K.L. Tamta, the inspector-general of police, north Bengal, said: “We believe that the six named in the FIR for being directly involved in the murder have crossed over to Sikkim. I have spoken to the police officials in Sikkim and joint raids will be conducted along the border areas.” The six named in the FIR lodged by ABGL general secretary Laxman Pradhan are Alokkant Mani Thulung, Puran Thami (youth wing leaders), Kismat Chhetri and Keshav Raj Pokhral (student leaders), Tenzing Khambachay and Dinesh Gurung (both town committee members). Seven others, including Morcha chief Bimal Gurung, have also been named in the FIR for indulging in criminal conspiracy. However, the police arrested Sangay Tshering Bhutia, president of the Janmukti Hotel Owners’ Association, from Kurseong last night. Bhutia was named in an FIR lodged by Dawa Sherpa, state secretary of the BJP, for vandalising his hotel-cum-residence on Gandhi Road on Friday. Bhutia, who was released today on bail by the Darjeeling judicial magistrate, has been asked to report at the local police station once a week. While peace marches with lighted candles continued today, Anmole Prasad, a Kalimpong-based lawyer and Morcha spokesperson for the first three rounds of tripartite talks between the party, Centre and the state, said he “would no longer be attached to the Morcha” after the “heinous and inconsolable murder of Madan Tamang”. Morcha spokesperson Harka Bahadur Chhetri, too, said if anyone from the outfit was implicated in the murder, he would quit the party. Sukman Moktan, secretary general of the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, an apolitical organisation with a pan-Indian reach, today demanded that “all private armies and forces be banned”. He was referring to the Gorkhaland Personnel, a voluntary force raised by the Morcha. The CPRM also has a “force”, the Sawamsevak Bahini. “Political parties in the hills have private armies and forces. These must be banned immediately. We also demand a CBI inquiry into the killing,” said Moktan. The Morcha has appealed to hill residents to keep their business establishments shut for a day in Darjeeling tomorrow as a mark of respect to Tamang. The ABGL leader’s funeral will take place in Meghma, 35km from Darjeeling, tomorrow.
PEACE RALLY Organised by students of NBU, Siliguri Pic: DK WaibaTT, Darjeeling, May 23: Two days after the murder of ABGL president Madan Tamang, police fear that the main accused, all members of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s frontal organisations, have taken shelter in neighbouring Sikkim.
K.L. Tamta, the inspector-general of police, north Bengal, said: “We believe that the six named in the FIR for being directly involved in the murder have crossed over to Sikkim. I have spoken to the police officials in Sikkim and joint raids will be conducted along the border areas.”
The six named in the FIR lodged by ABGL general secretary Laxman Pradhan are Alokkant Mani Thulung, Puran Thami (youth wing leaders), Kismat Chhetri and Keshav Raj Pokhral (student leaders), Tenzing Khambachay and Dinesh Gurung (both town committee members). Seven others, including Morcha chief Bimal Gurung, have also been named in the FIR for indulging in criminal conspiracy.
However, the police arrested Sangay Tshering Bhutia, president of the Janmukti Hotel Owners’ Association, from Kurseong last night. Bhutia was named in an FIR lodged by Dawa Sherpa, state secretary of the BJP, for vandalising his hotel-cum-residence on Gandhi Road on Friday. Bhutia, who was released today on bail by the Darjeeling judicial magistrate, has been asked to report at the local police station once a week.
While peace marches with lighted candles continued today, Anmole Prasad, a Kalimpong-based lawyer and Morcha spokesperson for the first three rounds of tripartite talks between the party, Centre and the state, said he “would no longer be attached to the Morcha” after the “heinous and inconsolable murder of Madan Tamang”.
Morcha spokesperson Harka Bahadur Chhetri, too, said if anyone from the outfit was implicated in the murder, he would quit the party.
Sukman Moktan, secretary general of the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, an apolitical organisation with a pan-Indian reach, today demanded that “all private armies and forces be banned”. He was referring to the Gorkhaland Personnel, a voluntary force raised by the Morcha. The CPRM also has a “force”, the Sawamsevak Bahini. “Political parties in the hills have private armies and forces. These must be banned immediately. We also demand a CBI inquiry into the killing,” said Moktan.
The Morcha has appealed to hill residents to keep their business establishments shut for a day in Darjeeling tomorrow as a mark of respect to Tamang. The ABGL leader’s funeral will take place in Meghma, 35km from Darjeeling, tomorrow.
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