Siliguri: The Gorkha Jan Mukti (GJM) supporters today demanded that All-India Gorkha League (AIGL) president Madan Tamang quit Darjeeling hills as he had failed to prove his allegations against GJM president Bimal Gurung.

But a defiant Tamag today said "he was ready to die in Darjeeling in protest against undemocratic act of GJM in the hills." The GJM leadership had earlier asked Tamang to prove his allegation that Gurung had a secret meeting with West Bengal Home secretary, Ashok Mohan Chakraborty in Darjeeling recently where he had allegedly agreed to withdraw few movement programme of GJM.

The GJM had given Tamang 15 days time to establish his allegation against Gurung. Otherwise he was told that he should quit politics forever. The deadline expired yesterday. GJM general secretary Roshan Giri told PTI over phone today that "though GJM had asked Tamang to quit politics, the public might not allow him to stay in Darjeeling and force him to leave the hills forever.

 Let us wait and see what happens today," Giri said. When contacted Tamang claimed that he still has big public support in the hills and was not a "coward" like Subash Ghising, who had left Darjeeling following a similar threat from GJM. The Superintendent of Police of Darjeeling Rahul Srivastav said that adequate police arrangements were there to maintain law and order and peace at all costs.

Source : PTI