Gorkha Janamukti Morcha will not support BJP in LS polls

Darjeeling:The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) will not support the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, GJM president Binay Tamang said on Friday.

“After the declaration of the election schedule, the party will clear its strategy,” he told media here.

In November 2017, the general committee of the GJM had suspended the then party president Bimal Gurung



and appointed Binay Tamang as the new party president.

At an event in Mumbai in December, BJP president Amit Shah had said that the party was aiming to win 23 seats out of the 42 in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, as opposed to the 2 seats they won in 2014.