In the forthcoming municipal elections
the members of People Democratic Front (PDF) and CPM will
contest together against GNLF in the hills. A meeting has
been held here at Siliguri today between CPM and PDF.
Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League
(ABGL), the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM)
and the GNLF (C), which make up the PDF, took part in the
meeting. Both the party members have planned their strategies
for campaign. Jibitesh Sarkar, CPM state committee member
said that they will focus on the matter how GNLF failed to
promote tourism in Mirik. According to Mr. Asok Bhattacherjee,
the urban and rural development minister said, “We and
PDF will smash out the GNLF power over hills and they will
campaign and focus on the failure to run the DGHC. It will
be the first test for CPM-PDF alliance power.