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the
Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council came into being. Ghisingh became its chairman after winning the first council elections. The council had authority over some economic development programmes, tourism and culture. Ghisingh remained the chairman of the DGHC for 20 years with his GNLF party winning the DGHC elections three times.
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opposed the setting up of a Sixth
Schedule tribal council as there was only a minority tribal population in the DGHC area. Resentment among the former councillors of DGHC also grew rapidly. Among them, Bimal Gurung, once the trusted aide of Ghisingh, decided to break away from the GNLF. Riding on a mass support for
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After two years of violent agitation and the loss of at least 1200 lives, the government of West Bengal and the central government of India agreed on granting a semi-autonomous administrative body to
Darjeeling hills. In July 1988, the GNLF gave up its demand for a separate state, and in August 1988,
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on 8 April 2011 ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections. His party contested the state assembly elections held on 18 April 2011 from three constituencies in the
Darjeeling hills but lost all the three seats that it had won in the earlier election. Ghisingh left the Darjeeling hills again on 16
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of West Bengal for a separate state. The
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government of West Bengal, which earlier had supported some form of autonomy, now opposed it as "antinational". The state government claimed that
Darjeeling district was no worse off than the state in general and was richer than many districts. However, GNLF spoke of discrimination from the West
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The fourth DGHC elections were due in 2004. However, the government decided not to hold elections and instead made
Subhash Ghisingh the sole caretaker of the DGHC till a Sixth Schedule tribal council was established in the Darjeeling hills. Most of the other political parties and organisations
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candidate from
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In 1986, the
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