GJM sets police outpost on fire

Darjeeling: A police outpost was set on fire by pro-Gorkhaland agitators in Darjeeling hills and posters were distributed saying local BJP MP S.S. Ahluwalia “has not been seen in the Hills in the last few months” on the 38th day of the indefinite shutdown on Saturday.

The agitators threw petrol bombs at a vacant police outpost in Jaldhaka in the afternoon and also tried to set ablaze a forest bungalow in the Hills but failed, the police said. The GJM youth wing continued their fast-unto-death, which they launched on Friday at four places in the Hills in support of a separate Gorkhaland.

Meanwhile, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists and other Hill parties held a demonstration outside the district magistrate’s office here, demanding restoration of Internet services in the hills. Internet services have been suspended for the last 32 days. 

The posters of BJP MP from Darjeeling S.S. Ahluwalia were distributed among people by the GJM, GNLF and other Hill parties.