Mamata Banerjee has brushed aside the proposal of Trinamul hill leaders to contest coming hill elections alone in a clear indication that the Trinamul chief is comfortable with the present political m...

Every political party taking part in the Darjeeling municipality election wants the civic body to be upgraded into a corporation. Ironically, the Bengal government had agreed to do it 22 years ago. E...

When Subash Ghisingh ruled the Darjeeling hills for 20 years from 1988 to 2008, he "hardly campaigned" during elections whether it was Lok Sabha or Assembly polls, recalled old-timers. &ldqu...

Before the last Darjeeling municipality elections in 2017, the Bimal Gurung-led Gorkha Janmukti Morcha had to hold a “lottery” to finalise their party candidates in most of the 32 wards be...

Trinamul Congress and Bimal Gurung’s Gorkha Janmukti Morcha have decided not to field candidates against each other in the February 27 Darjeeling municipality elections but leaders of both parti...

“We attended a meeting where Binay Tamang was also present. We, however, also, met the ministers separately where we raised the demand for waiver of electricity bills,” said Giri. Sources...

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, which had issued a diktat to the hill people to refrain from paying electricity bills during the 2007 Gorkhaland agitation, has made a 180-degree turn and informed the gove...

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung has hinted at going alone in hill politics, one-and-a-half-years after dumping the BJP and joining hands with the Trinamul Congress. Many hill politicians, ...

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha headed by Bimal Gurung will campaign for the Trinamul Congress in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation polls which will be held on January 22, along with three other civic bod...

A host of leaders from Bimal Gurung’s Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has quit the party when important local elections are on the cards. Twenty prominent leaders, including Satyawan Chettri, the presid...