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State Times
April 22, 2018
While interaction with the people of Gorkha Nagar in Bahu Fort area, Bhalla said the people of Jammu were feeling cheated under BJP-PDP rule. The meeting was organized by Karuna Chhetri, President Gorkha Biradari. Among those present on the occasion include Shankar Singh Vice President,Ãâà...
The Shillong Times
March 14, 2018
Members of three organisations representing Gorkha community namely Asom Nepali Sahitya Sabha, Gorkha Students' Union and Asom Gorkha Sammelan held a meeting with the Chief Minister and apprised him of different problems that the people of Gorkha community are confronting with.
The Kathmandu Post
December 12, 2017
People of Gorkha constituency-2 said they voted for Bhattarai as he was the only leader of the people in the district. They said that Bhattarai visited Gorkha up to 54 times after he won the first Constituent Assembly elections in 2008. He had made a policy of visiting Gorkha each month after he won the voteÃâà...
The Wire
August 31, 2017
On one side are parties that were formed to claim Darjeeling and the hills as a separate homeland and a state for the people of Gorkha origin and on the other is the West Bengal government that cannot negotiate for a division of territory because the ruling Trinamool Congress, like its predecessor theÃâà...
Scroll.in
July 30, 2017
“This movement is now a people's movement, not a party's movement,” said Harka Bahadur Chhetri, president of the Jan Andolan Party who was earlier with the Morcha. “This movement has for the first time emotionally integrated the people of Gorkha origin all over the world.” Said Neeraj Zimba Tamang,Ãâà...
benarnews
June 15, 2017
We have written to the Indian government to intervene.” The people of Gorkha ethnic origin are demanding a state separate from West Bengal on the basis of stark linguistic and cultural differences, Giri said. The state government, however, said that giving in to the Gorkhas' demand was “out of the question.
The Kathmandu Post
May 4, 2017
... only locals of Manang are permitted to collect the fungus. Following the deaths of seven people of Gorkha in 2010, out-of-district collectors have been barred in Manang. Security has also been tightened with police keeping collectors under constant surveillance, according to DSP Chitra Bahadur Gurung.
Kathmandu Post
February 27, 2016
Bhattarai, who quit the Maoist party in September, recently announced a campaign to form a new political party, a move that Dahal termed a betrayal against the people of Gorkha. “He left the party that stood by him all his life. Getting elected from Gorkha will now be difficult for him,” Dahal said at a pressÃâà...
