Mukesh Sharma
Kalimpong, 5th April
Gorkha Rastriya Congress (GRC) today started campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections by holding a first Election meting in kalimpong at Trikone Park.

GRC President and its poll candidate Nima Lama said that Lama added the party’s main agenda is the merger of Sikkim & Darjeeling and since Darjeeling hills was formerly a part of Sikkim. For the past several decades, the people in the Hills have been demanding and agitating for a separate state of Gorkhaland, but that all the time, the Hills have been

He said the Darjeeling is an integral part of Sikkim and that it was never a part of Bengal.

He further claimed that the central leadership in Delhi does not even want to hear the Gorkhaland. He claimed that the Centre has instead supported the GRC demand and for the merger of Darjeeling with Sikkim and that it has even asked for a public mandate on the matter in the Hills.

He added that their demand has been positively considered by the central leadership as their demand is for unification and it does not have to do with separatism.

Party Leader Subodh Pakrin ,Secretary Amar Laksum too addressed the meeting