Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) president Anit Thapa on Friday claimed that the BJP’s journey that had started in the hills with the victory in the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat in 2009 had ended there and urged Bengal and the rest of India to emulate the hills.

Addressing the Martyrs’ Day rally of the Trinamul Congress in Calcutta, Thapa said: “We had worked with the BJP from 2009. Whenever elections were near, the BJP used to show us big dreams and being a community with high self-respect, we Gorkhas believed them from our hearts. We believed them for 15 years.”

“The BJP started its journey in Bengal from Darjeeling but they only lied to Gorkhas who defend the nation. During the panchayat elections, the BJP was unmasked. The journey they had started from the hills ended in the hills. It is now time for Bengal and the rest of India to follow suit.”

In the recent rural polls and in the elections to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration last year, the BGPM had bagged the majority of the seats.