The Binay Tamang faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha voiced fears over the law and order situation of the hills after one of their supporters was stabbed and injured allegedly by supporters of the rival Bimal Gurung faction at Barnesbeg tea garden, some 8km from Darjeeling town, on Tuesday evening.

According to an FIR filed by Chetan (Thapa) Chhetri, 32, supporters of the Gurung faction had held a meeting in the garden and soon some of them took out weapons and started chasing everyone on the road. “One amongst them stab me to kill me at the back and I felt unconscious (sic),” the injured Chetan said in the FIR where he named eight Gurung supporters.

Ever since Gurung announced his decision to dump the BJP-led NDA and back Trinamul last month, his supporters are organising meeting across the hills.

Now, both the warring Morcha factions are aligned to Trinamul.

Anit Thapa, general secretary of the Tamang faction, slammed “politics relying on weapons” and added “if provoked we will respond appropriately.”

The Gurung faction has not issued any statement.