Madan Tamang
Madan Tamang (मदन तामाङ) | |
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President, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 June 1948 |
Died | 21 May 2010 Darjeeling, West Bengal, India | (aged 61)
Manner of death | Assassination |
Nationality | Indian |
Madan Tamang was an Indian
Personal life
Madan Tamang was born on 1 June 1948 to Manbahadur Tamang and Lamu Tamang at Meghma village in Darjeeling district. He was the eldest of four brothers. He studied at St Robert's School in Darjeeling and then completed his bachelor's degree in humanities from St Joseph's College at North Point in Darjeeling. He was married to Bharati Tamang. Madan Tamang entered the tea business by establishing a tea estate in his ancestral land around Meghma on the Indo-Nepal border.[2]
Political career
Madan Tamang entered into politics in 1969 while still in college when he became a close associate of the noted ABGL leader of the time, Deo Prakash Rai. Through the 1970s, he headed Tarun Gorkha, the youth wing of the
After lying low for some time, in 1992, Tamang started the Gorkha Democratic Front (GDF) to counter GNLF's opposition of the inclusion of the Nepali language in the Constitution because it wanted
After the downfall of Subhash Ghisingh and GNLF and the rise of a new party Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) headed by Bimal Gurung in the Darjeeling hills, Madan Tamang became a vocal opponent of the GJM and levelled corruption charges against Bimal Gurung and other GJM leaders. ABGL set up an alliance of eight parties called Democratic Front along with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) to fight for democracy in the hills through peaceful means and to oppose the GJM from accepting a compromised interim setup in place of a full-fledged state, as originally demanded by the Gorkhaland movement and GJM leaders.[7][8]
Death
On 21 May 2010, at around 9.30 am, Madan Tamang was supervising arrangements for a meeting scheduled for later in the day near Planters Club, Darjeeling to celebrate the 68th Foundation Day of
Notes
- ^ "Tamang funeral turns into anti-GJM tirade". The Times of India. 25 May 2010.
- ^ "Oolongs & Rhododendrons - Madan Tamang's Twin Passions". Himal News. 22 May 2010.
- ISBN 81-7022-691-0.
- ISBN 0-7619-3452-9.
- ^ "Voice of opposition, always". The Telegraph. Calcutta. 22 May 2010. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.
- ^ "Interview with Mr. Madan Tamang, President of Gorkha League". Darjeeling Times. 7 December 2006. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b "Gorkha leader Madan Tamang killed, Darjeeling tense". The Indian Express. 21 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Madan Tamang's body taken out in massive procession". The Hindu. 24 May 2010.
- ^ "Gorkha leader Madan Tamang hacked in public". The Times of India. 22 May 2010.
- ^ Chhetri, Vivek (24 May 2010). "'Boy' who delivered the killer blow". The Telegraph India. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010.
- ^ "Hills mourn Tamang". Business Standard. 25 May 2010.
- ^ "Tamang's murder threatens to derail Gorkhaland talks". The Times of India. 26 May 2010.
Further reading
- Samanta, Amiya K. (2000). Gorkhaland Movement: A Study in Ethnic Separatism. APH Publishing. ISBN 81-7648-166-1.