The Binay Tamang camp of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has criticised Bimal Gurung for his alleged failure to utter a word of sympathy for the victims of Bijanbari road accident.
An SUV had skidded off a Bijanbari road and plunged 130ft down into the Little Rangit river on Friday. One student, Renuka Chhetri, 18, died and 12 others were injured.
Sandip Chhetri, the spokesman for the Darjeeling subdivisional committee of the Morcha, said: “Gurung sends message on every little thing but he has not uttered a word of sympathy for the Bijanbari victims. This is only because everything is about politics for him. His sympathy for the Gorkhaland martyrs is also to gain political sympathy.”
“It is our misfortune that we have such an opportunistic person in our midst. He used martyr Pramila Sharma to chase Subash Ghisingh out of the Darjeeling hills, then used martyrs Nita Khawash, Bimala Rai and Vicky Lama to accept the GTA,” alleged Chhetri.
“Martyr Mangal Singh Rajput was used to return to the GTA in 2013 and again to regain his ground, he made 11 people martyrs in 2017.”
Roshan Giri, the leader of the Gurung camp, in a message in the social media on Sunday, criticised a purported plan of Binay Tamang’s group to hold a rally in Delhi.
“We are hearing that they want to bring 22,500 people to Delhi. We welcome the move but it should be for the martyrs. The show of strength should be to demand Gorkhaland,” said the statement issued in the name of Anmol Thapa, who is aligned with Gurung.