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GJM plans to stall Darjeeling in support of Gorkhaland
Arijit Sen / CNN-IBN on 06/16/2008 at 12:48pm (UTC) | | |
Published on Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 15:35 in Nation section
GOING ALL OUT:GJM youths will now carry arms and highways to Sikkim and Dooars will be blocked.
Darjeeling: Darjeeling is tense as it braces for the resumption of an indefinite bandh from Monday evening with Gorkhaland supporters also planning to carry arms to enforce it.
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) is all set to resume its indefinite strike in support of its demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland.
If everything moves according to the plans of GJM President Bimal Gurung, Darjeeling will come to a screeching halt from Monday onwards.
In a tight corner and desperate to be heard, the GJM's indefinite strike call has some fearful additions.
GJM youths will now carry arms and highways to Sikkim and Dooars will be blocked. A relay hunger strike will begin in Siliguri and Dooars.
"Our people will not look at tourism. We will only want Gorkhaland, only want Gorkhaland. After we get Gorkhaland, we will determine how we will control things," Gurung declares.
Though the GJM insists the town has adequate food supplies, the question is how long it can hold on after the indefinite strike begins on Monday, especially at a time when many factions in Siliguri, the key entry point of the town, seem geared up to oppose them.
"We have enough food for our people. There enough food for the next one and half months," Sameer, a Gorkha Janmukti Morcha member, says.
In the market place everything seems to be in order.
But the scales might not be tipped in favour of that confidence.
Bimal Prasad Gupta is a third generation migrant businessman in Darjeeling and one of the very few who agreed to come on camera.
"Siliguri is the main town. We get our goods from there. Of course there will be an effect if there is a bandh," Gupta says.
This uncertainty of goods coming into Darjeeling and Sikkim is perhaps on everyone's mind.
The hills are still recovering from the effects of the first economic blockade. And with the youth being armed, memories of the last violent call for Gorkhaland seem to be back in the hills.
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