Shutdown spontaneous
Posted by barunroy on January 16, 2008
Darjeeling, Jan. 15: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha did not have to organise picketing in town today as the shutdown in most government offices on the second day of the agitation was almost spontaneous, reports our correspondent.
“We laid siege to a few places like the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. The rest of the state and central government offices remained closed throughout the day,” said Roshan Giri, the general secretary of the Morcha.
However, with banks shut since yesterday, the common man is at a loss. In fact, even the ATM machines are currently closed.
The Morcha today claimed that a lot of people from the constituency of Dawa Pakhrin, the GNLF’s Kalimpong branch committee president, have switched allegiance.
