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The Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are in an intense fight over control of the Darjeeling constituency, West Bengal.
It was with the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat that the BJP staged a comeback in the state after its debacle in 2004. Apart from Darjeeling, the BJP won the Asansol constituency in 2014.
On the other hand, since its inception in 1998, the TMC hasn’t been able to win the Darjeeling constituency.
Ethnically sensitive Darjeeling, dominated by the Gorkhas and dotted with the Lepcha, Tamang and other minorities, have long cherished the dream of an independent state of Gorkhaland.
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