Initial discontent

Following the Centre's approval for Telangana to become a separate state, Bimal Gurung, president of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, resigned as chief executive of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration for better to lead the agitation for a separate Gorkhaland. Dispelling speculation that Gurung would be asked to take back the resignation, an implacable West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that it had been accepted. And just to underline her attitude to the Gorkhaland demand, she took a derisive dig at Gurung by revealing to journalists that the resignation letter addressed to Governor M K Narayanan referred to him as K R Narayanan, former President of India. Maybe Gurung has already started feeling too alienated to correctly remember the name of the Governor of a state from which he and fellow gorkhas wish to break away.