Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh

Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (Nepali: भारतीय गोर्खा परिसंघ) is a non-government national-level organization of Indian Gorkhas.

Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh was established in 2001. It has its headquarters in Siliguri, in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal and unit offices in almost all the regions of India, including the states of Delhi, Sikkim, Assam, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. Its current national president is Dil Kumari Bhandari, former Lok Sabha member from Sikkim. Its working president is Rev Enos Das Pradhan and its Secretary General is Sukhman Moktan.

Demands

Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh has identified seven issues of the Indian Gorkhas to be resolved at the national level:

1. Creation of a separate state for the Gorkhas of India
2. Identification of the problems of tea garden and cinchona plantation in Darjeeling-Dooars as a national problem
3. Addressing the sense of insecurity and uncertainty in the minds of Gorkhas of Northeast India
4. Commissioning of a Doordarshan channel dedicated to the Nepali-speaking Gorkhas
5. Nomination of Gorkhas to public and government bodies
6. Recognition of Gorkhas as a linguistic minority community
7. Empowering Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh to issue certificates for the purpose of recruitment to the armed forces

Reference

• http://www.christiantoday.com/article/gorkhas.demand.separate.state.recognition.in.india/8847-2.htm
• http://www.assamtimes.org/Political/2477.html
• http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gorkha-parisangh-for-separate-state-in-india/19055
• http://mygorkhaland.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/seven-national-issues-of-the-bharatiya-gorkha-parisangh
• http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/News/bgp-convention.html