Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha sets deadline for Gorkhaland

In West Bengal, the Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha has set 27 June as deadline for dissolving the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, DGHS and to create a separate state of Gorkhaland. Disclosing this to newsmen after the Morcha's Central Committee meeting in Darjeeling last evening, its General Secretary Mr. Roshan Giri said the DGHS set up in 1988 has failed to fulfill the aspirations of the hill people. He said the meeting also decided to launch an agitation for the creation of Gorkhaland if the June 27 deadline was not met. In another development, 104 of the 112 gram panchayat pradhans and up-pradhans in Darjeeling hills have resigned in support of their demand for Gorkhaland. (newsonair)