Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
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Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
गोर्खा जनमुक्ति मोर्चा |
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| Chairperson | Bimal Gurung |
| Secretary-General | Roshan Giri |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | North Point Singamari, Darjeeling, West Bengal |
| ECI Status | Registered unrecognized Party |
| Alliance | National Democratic Alliance |
| Website | |
| www.gorkhajanmuktimorcha.org | |
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Nepali: गोर्खा जनमुक्ति मोर्चा) (a.k.a. GJM, GJMM or GOJAM) is a registered unrecognized political party which campaigns for the creation of a separate state Gorkhaland within India, out of districts in the north of West Bengal. The party was launched on 7 October 2007.
Bimal Gurung, a former GNLF councillor of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, fell out with Subhash Ghisingh for "opposing the Sixth Schedule status for the hills and for his speeches against Subhash Ghisingh, the party president". Gurung who was considered one of the most powerful leaders of the hills, stated to oppose the Sixth Schedule bill even though it had received Cabinet approval in the Indian Parliament. He founded GJM on 7 October 2007. The aims and the objectives of the new party was to "fight for the democratic right of the Indian Gorkhas living in India and (to) work unitedly for the creation of separate state for the people residing in the three Hill Sub-Division of Darjeeling, Siliguri Terai and Dooars areas.
GJM’s opposition of the sixth schedule and demand for Gorkhaland was supported by Dr Mahendra P. Lama, Dr Vimal Khawas, and other parties as well, viz. the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM), the BJP, the Congress and the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL). The BJP organised an all-party meet attended by ABGL, the CPRM, the Congress, the Gorkha Rashtriya Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the GJM and the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP), which adopted a resolution asking the state to drop the Sixth Schedule proposal and remove Ghisingh as caretaker administrator of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC). The Hill parties did not want the Sixth Schedule as Clause 11 of the Sixth Schedule stated "this in principle Memorandum of Settlement is the full and final settlement of the Darjeeling Hill Areas issue and no further demands in this regard would be entertained". GJM burnt copies of the 1988 Memorandum of Settlement which had categorically stated, "the GNLF agree to drop the demand for a separate State of Gorkhaland", thereby reviving the century old demand of Gorkhaland.
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