GJM Not dismayed by NDA loss

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) said on Sunday it was not disheartened by the failure of NDA, which supported its demand for Gorkhaland, in assuming power at the Centre and would continue with its movement.     

"We would continue our movement for Gorkhaland. We are not dismayed. We will work out a strategy which will be formulated by our central committee soon," GJM general secretary Roshan Giri told PTI today.     

Asked if their goal to achieve Gorkhaland has turned to be a distant dream now that the NDA failed to capture power, Giri said, "Not exactly. We will move the UPA government with our demands."     

Giri claimed that GJM-supported BJP candidate Jaswant Singh got around 90,000 votes from four plain assembly segments of the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat where both the CPI(M) and the Congress had played the 'anti-Gorkhaland card'.     

"It simply proves that there is a section of people in the plains too who support the Gorkhaland demand," he said.