Key Points
A month later, the chief of Darjeelings Hamro Party, Ajoy Edwards, released a short video on his social media page featuring an A4 poster of him alongside Rahul Gandhi in his SUV, symbolising their joint participation in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Manipur a clear indication of Edwards aligning with the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections...
On 28 March, Edwards Hamro Party formally joined the INDIA bloc at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi...
This development is likely to make the Lok Sabha elections in Darjeeling a triangular contest between the Congress, BJP and TMC though political observers in the hills feel there is very little time for campaigning, given the complexity of the constituency...
In the meantime, BJP MLA from Kurseong, Bishnu Prasad Sharma has filed his nomination for the Lok Sabha polls from the Darjeeling seat against his party...
Seated alongside West Bengal Congress in-charge G.A. Mir and media-in-charge Pawan Khera, Edwards Thursday declared that his ultimate goal is to separate Darjeeling from Bengal...
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