Siliguri, June 11: The CPRM today said since the formation of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha last year, it has become difficult for other parties to conduct any sort of political activity in the hills.

“Apart from supporting the demand for a separate state, it is tough to carry out any political activity in hills at the moment,” Rabindra Chhetri, the organisation chief of the CPRM, said in Siliguri.

Around 500 CPRM supporters, forced to walk down from the hills because of the Morcha’s indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling, reached Siliguri today and boarded two bogies of the Calcutta-bound Teesta Torsha Express to take part in a demonstration in the state capital tomorrow.

So far, the CPRM had refrained from criticising the Morcha, having backed it from the day it was formed. There had been no words of reproach even when the Morcha refused to relax the shutdown and allow the CPRM supporters to go to Siliguri on vehicles for their recent trip.

The CPM, on the other hand, has been accusing the Morcha of curbing the activities of other political parties since November last year, when the hill party stopped it from holding its district conference in Darjeeling. The meet was later held in Siliguri.

About the agitation in Calcutta, Chhetri said: “We will demand the unconditional release of Chhatrey Subba, arrested eight years ago for an alleged murder attempt on Subash Ghisingh and additional compensation to the families of the victims of the Gorkhaland agitation.”