Kalimpong: The rebel faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is
set to take control of the Kalimpong municipality after chief Suva
Pradhan was voted out on Thursday in a no-confidence motion that he
chose not to face by resigning.
A little after the meeting began
for the no-trust motion, Pradhan came out and told reporters he had
quit. But the councillors belonging to the rebel Morcha group of Binay
Tamang and Anit Thapa decided to hold the vote anyway. Twenty of the 22
councillors present supported the motion.
Pradhan was once seen
as a loyalist of Morcha chief Bimal Gurung. Kalimpong is the third of
the four hill civic bodies to have come in the grasp of the rebel Morcha
group after Kurseong and Darjeeling. Trinamul runs the Mirik
municipality.#
The Telegraph
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