Skip to main content

Ghisingh wife dead, GJM no to Hills funeral

By himalayanreview




Pinak Priya Bhattacharya & Deep Gazmer,TNN

SILIGURI/DARJEELING: Her last journey had to be cut short as GJM did not allow the body of Dhanmaya Ghisingh, wife of GNLF president Subash Ghisingh, to be taken to her ancestral home in Ghoom. Sources said she will be cremated in Siliguri on Sunday.

 Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) leaders, who came to Mallaguri in Siliguri after Dhanmaya's death on Saturday morning, had decided to take her body to Ghoom and then cremate her in Darjeeling.

 But as soon as that news spread, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders declared that they would not allow GNLF to take Dhanmaya's body to Darjeeling under any circumstances. GJM supporters also started picketing along Hill Cart Road and NH-31B to prevent GNLF leaders from entering the Hills with Dhanmaya's body.

 To avoid the blockade, the GNLF convoy, accompanied by police, took Rohini Road to reach Darjeeling and Ghisingh was not present in that convoy. But they were stopped by GJM supporters at Kurseong and sent back.

 "We did not want Subash Ghisingh to enter the Hills. So, we stopped the convoy," said Pradip Pradhan, secretary of GJM's Kurseong unit. He pretended as if the GJM supporters did not know that Ghisingh was not in the convoy.

 This inhuman act was fully supported by the GJM top brass as it found nothing wrong with what their supporters had done.

 "Nobody in the Hills would go to the funeral if the GNLF leaders came to Darjeeling with the body. This is considered as utmost humiliation in our society and such a situation might have erupted in violence. So, our supporters were on the roads from morning to prevent them from entering Darjeeling," said Binay Tamang, GJM's press and public relations secretary.

 Dhanmaya's body was taken to her cousin's house at Khaprail near Siliguri. Ghisingh's relatives from Darjeeling have headed for Khaprail to attend the funeral.

 The 65 year-old woman suffered a heart attack early on Saturday and died on the way to hospital. She was staying at Mallaguri with her son Mohan for the past few days after she fell ill.

 Dhanmaya, also known as Dhan Kumari, had come to Siliguri and was staying with her husband at the Teesta Barrage bungalow at Tinbatti More after GJM had driven out Ghisingh from Darjeeling in July.

 The GJM's attitude has irritated people of all sections in the plains. They are finding it difficult to explain the heinous act. Even a large section of GJM supporters in the Hills are anxious over the issue.

pic: himalayandarpan
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Those early man tools found in Sikkim!

By himalayanreview
--> Display of Neolithic tools recovered from Sajyong, 2003 (Weekend Review) BY SHITAL PRADHAN Not only is the Himalayan land of Sikkim old but it is also considered ancient. The archeological findings of different Neolithic tools in this part of the Himalayas over the last three decades speak of its antiquity. It may be of little importance to many. However, findings of various Neolithic tools from the remote pockets in Sikkim over the past five decades have still collected vivid interest in people beyond this region. On three separate occasions, Neolithic tools had been dug out from Sikkim, and that unfolded the age of this Himalayan mountain land much against the period we were supposed to. “The term Neolithic Period, or New Stone Age, defines the second period, at the beginning of which ground and usually polished rock tools, notably axes, came into widespread use after the adoption of a new technique of stone working. The beginning of the Neolithic...
3 comments
Read more

History on Easter Sunday and Padari Ganga Prasad Pradhan

By himalayanreview
By Seira Tamang As noted by various scholars, Hinduism, the Nepali language, the monarchy and a rastriya itihas (a chronicle of progress in which the dark era of Rana rule is contrasted with the enlightened, progressive and modern period of Panchayat rule) formed the core of the Panchayat regime’s national culture. The formation and consolidation of this national culture have required the expunging of uncomfortable facts and stories that might raise ambiguities and questions. While the selection of what and who is and is not acknowledged to exist (or at least exist in historically important ways) in official Nepali history is complex, social scientists have begun to provide more comprehensive historical accounts of the past through oral histories and re-readings of historical documents. Such accounts reveal how ordinary people lived in the past, and offer ways to think through how ‘history’ is crafted, shaped and managed in order to reflect ‘the reality’ best suited to the status quo, ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Shapi of Sikkim: Our legacy -iii

By himalayanreview
A Sikkimese with a Shapi The two previous articles I wrote in my earlier edition on Shapi were wonderful to read for people around, and appreciation had been received from different corners of the state. I am thankful and find pleasure in people finding joy in my findings and research work. It was a bit surprising that very few had heard about Shapi, our rare legacy.  Nevertheless, I am happy to be part of history for re-introducing Shapi to those sections of my readers who had never heard about this old and sacred mountain mammal, a native of Sikkim. I dedicate my writing on Shapi to Ongden Daju (RO), who has been very supportive of me ever since I first published its first part a few months back. It was he who wanted me to continue with the third part of Shapi since more findings were evolving after my two writings. I shall always remain grateful to JR Subba, Jt Director from the Forest Department, for providing me with a valuable census report of Shapi done by the Department...
2 comments
Read more