Bimal Gurung on quick, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha urges Mamata to think about calls for 

By PTI

KOLKATA: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on Friday urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to look into their calls for of suspending the election to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), which administers the Darjeeling Hills, and increase its jurisdiction because the starvation strike of social gathering chief Bimal Gurung entered the third day.

Gurung has been on starvation strike on the GJM’s workplace in Singamari in Darjeeling since Wednesday.

“Bimal-ji is fighting for the rights of the people of the Hills. His indefinite hunger strike entered its third day, and it will continue to press for the inclusion of 396 mouzas in the jurisdiction of GTA,” GJM normal secretary Roshan Giri mentioned.

“I have written a letter to the chief minister, requesting her to look into it personally,” he added.

The West Bengal authorities on Friday issued a notification, saying the GTA polls on June 26.

The elections to the GTA had been final held in 2012.

The GJM had swept the polls, profitable all 45 seats.

The GJM has been demanding postponement of the election till the Memorandum of Proposal (MoP) submitted by it’s carried out.

Among others, it calls for the inclusion of 396 mouzas within the GTA and switch of some departments.