GJM calls indefinite bandh after GJM chief Bimal Gurung's residence raided, weapons recovered
Kolkata: Amid a progressing shutdown over the Darjeeling Hills over separate Gorkhaland statehood issue, the experts on Thursday struck the home of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung in the Patlebas region.
As per ANI, the GJM chief' residence was assaulted by West Bengal Police and the CRPF in a joint operation amid which a vast reserve of weapons were additionally recuperated.
The authorities broke bolts and burst into the GJM chief' living arrangement in the small hours to complete a gigantic pursuit there.
A colossal store of unstable gadgets, bows and bolts, sharp weapons, sparklers alongside cell phones were recuperated, as per Akhilesh Chaturvedi, Darjeeling SP .
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is said to be checking the circumstance in Darejeeling.
Today's attack at the GJM chief' residence comes in the midst of acceleration of pressure over the Darjeeling Hills over the statehood issue.
The Bimal Gurang-drove GJM had on Wednesday undermined to increase the progressing mix if the police keep on hounding Morcha supporters as they did over the most recent two days.
Amid the day, not exclusively did GJM president Bimal Gurung repeat his prior stand that visitors ought to leave, additionally proposed vagrant workers do likewise, recommending a mass departure from the Hills in the days to come.
"We are challenging gently, in a popularity based way, yet the state government is utilizing its apparatus to submit abominations with an end goal to smash our development. Our fomentation could get drawn out and the circumstance can get ugly. We ask for visitors and day by day breadwinners who have originated from different parts to work in the Hills to comprehend the circumstance and leave," Gurung said.
The GJM youth wing, the Gorkha Janmukti Yuwa Morcha (GJYM), is relied upon to hold a gigantic rally today in dissent against police crackdown and the capture of its individuals and a GTA councilor.
"We need to dissent and foment gently and fairly. In the event that the police do lathicharge on Thursday, we will call an inconclusive bandh in the Hills. Our one-point plan is Gorkhaland and we won't cringe before any risk," GJYM president Prakash Gurung had said.
On Wednesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee approached Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi at Raj Bhavan to brief him on the managerial strides taken to handle the circumstance.
Banerjee has been in contact with the representative ideal from the earliest starting point to update the Center as often as possible about the state's drive, at once GJM pioneers are attempting to utilize their own directs to connect with the Union government.
Expecting the GJM arrange for that may prompt renunciation of GJM individuals from GTA, the CM pressed the GTA with her confided in authorities.
IAS C Murugan has assumed control as GTA secretary and IAS Deepap Priya P has been posted as official chief GTA to keep the association running on the off chance that its CEO puts in his papers.
The rearrange in the GTA came hours inside the central priest's meeting with the senator.
The organization is likewise mindful of the circumstance and has acquired fortifications to frustrate any savagery.
In the meantime, dreading retaliation and being marked 'tricksters to the cause', a few Trinamool laborers have begun joining the GJM.