GJM urged to approach Governor to sort out Statehood demand

West Bengal Governor M. K. Narayanan on Thursday said the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) should come to him if the party wanted his intervention. Amid protests in the Darjeeling hills demanding a separate State, the GJM had sought the Governor’s mediation on Wednesday. “If they want my intervention, let them come and ask for my intervention,” Narayanan told newspersons here on the sidelines of the Presidency University’s first Annual Convocation. “I have made it very clear that the State of West Bengal extends from the ocean to the mountains,” he added.