Darjeeling, India : June 12, 2008 – International Reporter (IRS)/Agencies –(Updated) - The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Bandh has taken a serious turn of serious violence, as a result, the Administration had no other option but to call the Army to control the situation.  

The situation had gone from bad to worse and to control it the police had to lathi charge and used tear gas against the agitators who were blindly throwing stones against the police and others.  .

The Bandh was relaxed on Thursday so that the tourists who were stranded could leave the hill station but the agitators did not space even tourists, they broke their own promise and beat the tourists wherever they found them, taking them out of the taxies and buses forcibly as if the tourists were the dead dogs for them.

No vehicles are allowed by the agitators to go into Darjeeling from the plains. They are forced to stand in an unending long queue on the roads.

Over the last two days, there's been reported a virtual exodus of tourists from the popular hill station.

But now, a 48-hour bandh has been called in Siliguri at the foothills by a group opposed to the Gorkha movement.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee has called an all-party meeting on June 17 to discuss the Darjeeling crisis arising out of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha's demand for separate Gorkhaland state.