Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League is a political party working amongst the Nepali-speaking Gorkha population in Darjeeling District and Kalimpong District of West Bengal,India. The party was founded in 1943 by Damber Singh Gurung.
Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) is a political party based in the Darjeeling District and Kalimpong District of the Indian state of West Bengal. CPRM was formed in 1996 by Communist Party of India (Marxist) dissidents like former State Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Tamang Dawa Lama,Lok Sabha MP R.B. Rai and others,who were dissatisfied with the peace settlement the Left-Front government signed with the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF). CRPM participates in the Confederation of Indian Communists and Democratic Socialists. The youth organization of CPRM is called Democratic Revolutionary Youth Federation (DRYF).
Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) is a political party in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal,India. It was formed in 1980 by Subhash Ghisingh with the objective of demanding a Gorkhaland state within India.
The Gorkhaland movement is a campaign to create a separate state of India in the Gorkhaland region of West Bengal for the Nepali-speaking Indians. The proposed state includes the hill regions of the Darjeeling district,Kalimpong district and Dooars regions that include Jalpaiguri,Alipurduar and parts of Cooch behar districts. A demand for a separate administrative unit in Darjeeling has existed since 1909,when the Hillmen's Association of Darjeeling submitted a memorandum to Minto-Morley Reforms demanding a separate administrative setup.
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) is a registered unrecognized political party,that campaigns for the creation of a separate state Gorkhaland within India,out of districts in the north of West Bengal. The party was launched on 7 October 2007. The faction led by Binay Tamang,which was created out of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in 2017,merged into Gurung's GJM in 2021 after Tamang's resignation,following which he joined Trinamool Congress.
Madan Tamang was an Indian politician and the president of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL),a moderate faction of the Gorkhaland movement. Opposed to violent methods for the process,he stood for a negotiated settlement to the Gorkhaland dispute. He was hacked to death allegedly by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters on 21 May 2010 which led to spontaneous shutdown in the three divisions of the hills Darjeeling,Kurseong and Kalimpong.
Darjeeling Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bimal Gurung is an Indian politician and one of the founders and the president of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM),a political party demanding the formation of a separate state of Gorkhaland within India. He is the 1st chief executive member of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration,which is a semi-autonomous body that governs the hilly areas or Darjeeling District Kalimpong District and the partial terai region in the state of West Bengal.
Indian Gorkhas,also known as Indian Nepalis,are an ethno-cultural group native to India,who speak Nepali as a common language. They inhabit mainly the states of Sikkim,West Bengal,Northeast and Uttarakhand,including their diaspora elsewhere in India and abroad. The modern term "Indian Gorkha" is used to differentiate the Nepali language Speaking Indians from Nepalis.
The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration is a semi-autonomous council for the Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal state in India. The GTA was formed in 2012 to replace the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council,which was formed in 1988 and administered the Darjeeling hills for 23 years.
Subash Ghisingh was an Indian politician who was the leader of Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF),which he founded in 1980. He was the chairman of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council in West Bengal,India from 1988 to 2008. He spearheaded the Gorkhaland movement in the 1980s.
Prem Singh Tamang,better known as P. S. Golay,is an Indian politician,and former teacher who is serving as the 6th and current Chief Minister of Sikkim since 2019 and the founder and leader of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) since 2019. He represents the Poklok-Kamrang in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly since 2019,Upper Burtuk from 2009 to 2019 and Chakung from 1994 to 2009. Before forming the SKM party,he was a key member of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) Party.
Samik Bhattacharya is an Indian politician from West Bengal,who is serving as member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal since 3 April 2024. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party,Bhattacharya was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the Basirhat Dakshin constituency from 2014 until 2016. He is also the chief spokesperson of the BJP West Bengal since 2020.
Binay Tamang is an Indian Politician and a former leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha political party. He joined All India Trinamool Congress in 2021 and left in 2022. After then he joined Indian National Congress in 2023 and became State General Secretary of the party.
Pawan Kumar Singh is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He is the son of Arjun Singh of Barrackpore and a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Bhatpara. The seat became vacant due to the resignation of sitting MLA Arjun Singh. In the by-election,Pawan Singh won the seat on the BJP ticket defeating former transport minister of West Bengal Madan Mitra.
Sunil Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Noapara in West Bengal,a seat which he won in February 2018 as an All India Trinamool Congress candidate. He was also the chairman of Garulia municipality till September 2019. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in June 2019. Singh left BJP by withdrawing from the municipal councillor candidature on 12 February 2022,after which he rejoined All India Trinamool Congress on 13 February 2022.
The 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election was the 17th quinquennial legislative election held in West Bengal,to elect all 294 members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. This electoral process of 292 seats unfolded between 27 March to 29 April 2021,taking place in eight phases. Voting for the two remaining constituencies was delayed to 30 September 2021.
Ruden Sada Lepcha is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha. In May 2021,he was elected as a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Kalimpong (constituency) as a candidate of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Tamang). He defeated Suva Pradhan of Bharatiya Janata Party by 3,870 votes in 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections.
The 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election for 292 constituencies of the 294 constituencies in West Bengal was held between 27 March to 29 April 2021 in eight phases.
Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha is a political party based in Darjeeling district and Kalimpong district of West Bengal in India. BGPM was founded on 9 September 2021.
