GJM walks out of NDA, to go with TMC in 2021 Bengal assembly polls

According to GJM sources, Gurung had been in touch with the ruling TMC over the past one month

In a major jolt to the BJP ahead of the 2021 Assembly polls, the GJM led by fugitive Gorkha leader Bimal Gurung on Wednesday quit the NDA and aligned with TMC, saying the saffron party has "failed to find a permanent solution" for the Hills -- which had witnessed major unrest over demand for a separate state in 2017.

The BJP, which is still recovering from the setback it received last month when the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) pulled out of the NDA, said Gurung, who had been on the run since 2017, wanted to return to the Hills