A pacesetter of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) from Kalimpong named Roshan Lama handed away on Monday after allegedly falling over a cliff following a fistfight. According to police sources, Lama, 58, was driving his private automobile on Monday evening from Kalimpong city to his hometown of Mongsong, which is round 19 kilometers away. At Burmek Deorali, midway between Kalimpong and Mongsong, round 8.30 p.m., he had a minor collision with a two-wheeler that resulted in a verbal altercation and a fistfight between Lama and a resident of Kalimpong’s sixteenth Mile.
According to a supply, “during the altercation, the accused Tshering Sherpa allegedly pushed Lama off the road that runs along a cliff.” Then the sherpas left the world. Lama’s members of the family hurried him to the Kalimpong district hospital, the place medical doctors pronounced him useless. Sherpa, a person in his late 20s, was detained by the police. In accordance with a court docket ruling, the accused has been detained and positioned in judicial custody till the inquiry is finalized. The predominant witnesses will not be examined till after the burial as a result of they cannot make a press release proper now, in response to Kalimpong SP Aparajita Rai. On Wednesday, there can be a funeral.
Senior get together officers, together with GNLF President Mann Ghisingh and Darjeeling MLA Neeraj Zimba, paid a go to to the grieving household. “We don’t want to quickly politicize the situation, but we do want a fair investigation”, added Ghisingh. Supporters of the GNLF additionally put up posters in Kalimpong requesting an neutral investigation. Prior to this, Lama served because the GNLF Kalimpong department committee’s assistant common secretary.
On the opposite hand, the Hamro Party’s president, Ajoy Edwards, introduced on Tuesday that he had begun planning to file circumstances earlier than the Calcutta High Court on quite a few Darjeeling-related issues. According to Edwards, “We have begun making plans to file cases against the way teacher eligibility testing was conducted (by the GTA) and on the GTA chairman’s relief fund raised from the general public.” The TET was performed by the GTA in 2021, nevertheless, the outcomes haven’t but been made public, ostensibly as a result of “technical issues.”
The GTA raised Rs 2 crore in reduction funds for the tea backyard employees through the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund was not used for that purpose, although, as a result of tea gardens continued to function all through the pandemic. The GTA is now contemplating utilizing the funds to assemble a Shramik Bhavan in Siliguri. According to Edwards, “The money was raised for a specific purpose, but there are currently plans to use it for another purpose.” Additionally, the Hamro Party has demanded that the state election fee maintain the long-overdue municipal elections in Kalimpong, Mirik, and Kurseong straight away.
