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GJM protests intensify, other communities also raise demand for Gorkhaland

Around 2,000 Muslims who identified themselves as Gorkha Muslims took out a protest march

Security personnel patrol a road during GJM's strike in Darjeeling
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Security personnel patrol a road during GJM's strike in Darjeeling

Avishek Rakshit Darjeeling
The demand for Gorkhaland has crossed ethnic boundaries. Muslims and a part of the Rajasthani population have joined in to demand a separate statehood for the Darjeeling Hills, amid larger protests led by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM). 

Around 2,000 Muslims who identified themselves as Gorkha Muslims on Sunday took out a protest march holding placards which read “We want Gorkhaland and we support Bimal Gurung”, indicating their support to the GJM’s call for Gorkhaland. GJM has been demanding to carve out a separate state for the ethnic Gorkha and Lepcha population in northern West Bengal.

“We support the issue