CALCUTTA / DARJEELING: Dodging a red corner notice for three years since Darjeeling’s violent statehood upheaval in 2017, fugitive official Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Bimal Gurung dramatically resurfaced Wednesday in Kolkata to announce that he was severing all ties with BJP and she would support “Mamata Banerjee as the chief minister of Bengal” in next year’s assembly elections.
Gurung, who is wanted in 156 criminal cases including the murder of a police officer, was first seen in a pickup truck with a Jharkhand tuition a little after 4pm.
A group of television journalists chased him for 10 kilometers before he stopped at a hotel to address a makeshift press. “They promised us a permanent political solution for the Gorkhaland problem, ”said Gurung.
“We are part of the NDA and we made several requests to the central government to speed up the process. In the past six years, neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor Interior Minister Amit Shah have kept their commitment. They have not even granted tribal status to the 11 communities in the hills even though the state government gave its go-ahead … Now we will work hard to help Mamata Banerjee win the 2021 state assembly elections. That will be an answer. suitable for BJP “.
Being a proclaimed criminal with a red corner notice against him, Gurung said, “I am neither a criminal nor a terrorist. I am a politician and I have come here with courage and conviction. Even if they stop me, I’ll be happy ”.
Gurung said he had sought a “political settlement” in all the “political cases” against him. Gurung said he was in the capital until at least August. “For the last month and a half I have been in Jharkhand.”
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