Police disallow GJMM to hold ‘car rally’ for SS Ahluwalia’s welcome

SNS, Siliguri, 18 March 2014: Siliguri police today said they will not allow Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) to organise a ‘car rally’ here when the party welcomes BJP candidate for the Darjeeling Lok Sabh seat, SS Ahluwalia, tomorrow. Mr Ahluwalia is scheduled to arrive in Siliguri tomorrow, while the GJMM had earlier planned to take 200 cars full of its supporters to welcome him. Siliguri police commissioner Jag Mohan said he will allow a convoy of a maximum of 10 cars for Mr Ahluwalia when he goes to Darjeeling from the Bagdogra airport. “We will not allow any car rally where more than a hundred cars will run after Mr Ahluwalia. We will act as per instructions from the district election officer,” Mr Mohan said.

The GJMM leadership has planned to welcome Mr Ahulwalia at Bagdogra.

Airport and many other places on his way to Darjeeling from Dagapur near Siliguri. Reacting to the administrative decision, senior GJMM leader Binay Tamang said: “We apprehend that the state will not allow us to welcome the BJP candidate at Bagdogra airport. We have decided to welcome Mr Ahluwalia because we had welcomed Jaswant Singh at Bagdogra airport in 2009 when the BJP nominated him as its candidate for the Darjeeling LS seat.”