Sikkim unit of GJMM on hunger strike... Students wing formed in Sikkim

SNS, Gangtok, 9 August 2013: The ongoing Gorkhaland movement in the neighbouring Darjeeling Hills of Bengal has seen support in Sikkim. 

To show solidarity with those engaged in the stir for their long-pending demand for a separate state, the members of Sikkim unit of Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha began a relay hunger strike outside the East District Collector’s Office in Gangtok yesterday. 

A total of 12 GJMM activists, including those associated with several frontal organisations like the Jan Mukti Chalak Mahasangh, are participating in the relay hunger strike. This phase of the hunger strike would end with a peace rally to be staged in Gangtok on 14 August. 

The GJMM’s Sikkim unit vice president, Mr Deependra Dewan, said that the hunger strike is meant to invest the current movement in the Hills of Bengal a pan-Indian flavour. 

“Since the Sikkim government has already passed a resolution in the state Assembly favouring creation of Gorkhaland, we expect the people across the ethnic divide in Sikkim to lend whole-hearted support to the cause of Gorkhaland,” he added.

To show solidarity and support to the ongoing Gorkhaland movement in the Darjeeling hills, students of Sikkim formed Gorkha Janamukti Vidhyarthi Morcha (GJVM), Sikkm Branch.

In the presence of Deep Thapa Vice President of the Central Committee of GJVM, Vicky Thapa organising Secretary, Members of GJVM Kalimpong Branch, GJM Members of Sikkim Branch.

Deep Thapa thanked people of Sikkim and Sikkimese students for supporting the demand of Gorkhaland.