UGRF second in command Rudra Acharya released on bail

Mukesh Sharma: “I have spent five months in jail for the sake of Gorkhas and the agitation for Gorkhaland will carry on” said United Gorkha Revolutionary Front (UGRF) second in command Rudra Acharya after his release from Kalimpong jail today.The bail was granted on Monday but due to the delay in the judge’s notice, the release took today.Acharya who hails from Dalapchand area of Kalimpong, has been charged under Sections 121 (waging war against the Government of India), 122 (collecting arms with intention of waging war against Government), 123 (concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war), 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups) of the IPC read with Section 25(1) of the Arms Act.He also said that the agitation will be on Gandhian way and will solely for the separate State Gorkhaland. The UGRF had been floated on November 2004 while the United Gorkha Revolutionary Army (UGRA), the armed wing was raised on September 26, 2006 with the one point agenda of a separate state of Gorkhaland. Ajay Dahal former personnel of the Central Industries Security Force, in his early thirties then headed both the outfits with Acharya as the second in command