After a gap of six years, GNLF supremo Subhas Ghising today returned to the Darjeeling hills claiming that political parties were asking for his support to counter BJP candidate S S Alhuwalia, supported by the GJM.
"Many political parties such as Trinamool and CPI(M) have asked for my support. I haven't decided anything. The GNLF party leadership will take a final call," Ghising said.
Ghising, once an unchallenged leader in Darjeeling who championed the cause of a Gorkhaland state in the mid-eighties before putting it on the back burner and demanding 6th Schedule status, was forced out from the hills in 2008 by his one time trusted lieutenant Bimal Gurung, the GJM supremo.
The GNLF's stature of being the force in the hills was taken over by GJM after Ghising's exit.
The GJM has entered into an alliance with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls, after deciding not to support Baichung Bhutia, the Trinamool Congress candidate for the Darjeeling parliamentary seat.
