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 within 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.
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.
The 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Gujarat in December 2012 for all 182 members of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP),in power since 2002,was running for his fourth term. The leader of the opposition was Shaktisinh Gohil of the Indian National Congress (INC).
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 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.
Sanjeev Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was an elected member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from the Jharia constituency in Dhanbad district. In the 2014 Jharkhand Assembly Elections. He is currently serving a sentence in prison.
Swadhin Kumar Sarkar is an Indian politician and a Member of Bhartiya Janta Party. He was MLA from Baishnabnagar-54 constituency from the period of 2016 to 2021. He lost the election in 2021 WBLA elections.
Kishan Kapoor is an Indian politician and the member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Member of parliament,Lok Sabha from Kangra Lok Sabha constituency of Himachal Pradesh. He won the seat by a record margin of votes in the General election 2019. He had won by the margin of 4.77 lakh votes which is the 2nd largest voting percentage at 72.2% all over the country. He previously served as Food,Civil supplies &Consumer Affairs minister in the Himachal Pradesh Government. In the past,he has served three terms as a Cabinet minister and five terms as a member of the legislative assembly representing the Dharamshala assembly constituency. He is one of the senior most Bhartiya Janta Party leaders from the state.
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.
Leela Ram,also known as Leela Ram Gurjar,is an Indian politician and a member of the 14th Haryana Legislative Assembly elected from the Kaithal constituency in the 2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election. He had also served as Member of Legislative Assembly in 10th Haryana Legislative Assembly from Kaithal.
Bharatiya Janata Party,West Bengal,is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of West Bengal. The party's headquarters is located in Kolkata,the capital of the state. Sukanta Majumdar is currently appointed as the president of BJP West Bengal.
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.
