“The GJM is indulging in the politics of murder and mayhem and the people in the hills have rejected them. Now, we will hold apolitical rallies and meetings in the hills and we will not use our flags,” Minister for Urban Development Ashok

Bhattacharya, who is from Siliguri, said today, adding he would visit Darjeeling and the house of Madan Tamang soon.

“We will provide him security when he goes there,” DGP Bhupinder Singh said, adding the Centre was sending two companies of CRPF to Darjeeling to help the state police maintain law and order. Three companies of CRPF are already there guarding the National Highway leading to Gangtok.

In Kolkata, CPM state secretary Biman Bose pointed fingers at the Trinamool for the unrest in Darjeeling saying the party supported the Morcha in Darjeeling and Adivasi Bikash Parisad in the Dooars region.

Cops look for man who captured attack on video
Meanwhile, a CID team headed by IG Neeraj Narayan Pandey is camping in Darjeeling to crack the murder case. “Evidence is being marshalled and given shape. We are particularly looking at the video evidence and trying to find out who recorded the incident,” the DGP said.