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The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), spearheading an agitation for a separate Gorkhaland state, relaxed its indefinite bandh in the Darjeeling hills for 60 hours beginning this evening even as it decided to send two teams to talk to the West Bengal government as well as the Centre.
GJM general secretary Roshan Giri said while the date of visit of the team bound for Kolkata has not been decided yet, the team for Delhi would leave tomorrow.
Giri said the Kolkata-bound team would talk to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on the various demands.
The 60-hour breather, from 6 pm today till 6 am on Wednesday, was decided at the central committee meeting at the “request from different quarters including ministers and MPs and also considering the overall situation”, he said.
GJM press secretary Benoy Tamang said the blockade of the national highway 31A, linking Siliguri to Gangtok, would be lifted during the relaxation period enabling resumption of vital supply of essential commodities to Sikkim.
The indefinite bandh had started on June 16.
