Statesman News Service

SILIGURI, Sept. 7: Following the footsteps of the Nepal Maoist movement, which brought democracy in Nepal, a new political organisation ~ Darjeeling Gorkha Maobadi Sangathan (DGMS) ~ has been formed in the Darjeeling hills with the aim of making the region free from all kinds of corruption.
The reason for the party’s formation was the inefficiency of the political parties which could not provide justice for the people of the Darjeeling hills and failed to meet the demands for a separate state, blamed a member of DGMS.
The party will formally announce its name at Kalimpong on 16 September this year.
A party source said on the condition of anonymity that the existing political parties in the Hills had failed to establish a successful democracy in the Hills and had failed to solve various socioeconomic problems, as a result of which, unemployment was on the rise among youths. The party source also added that the ruling powers have failed to generate new jobs for youths and that developmental projects were in a stand still. The party source ruled out the possibility of any link between them and the Maoists in Nepal. He added that their party has been formed with the sole aim of creating a democratic, peaceful and corruption-free Darjeeling.
The party source also said that there is a large number of educated unemployed youths in the Hills. But the member assured that they would not lift arms to fight for their cause because they believed in peaceful movement.
The member further added that the political leaders of the Hills were working in their own interests and not for the benefit of the mass.