Nepal and with no need to limit hurled

The ethnic population of Darjeeling, Dooars and Tarai speak Nepali, this issue of language has been used time and again as a tool to stoke the sentiment of the ethnic population in the hills of North Bengal.
The Nepali language has also acted as a common thread connecting people of various tribal origins in the Darjeeling hills and this has been used as a political capital by the late GNLF leader Subhash Ghisingh and now GJM leader Bimal Gurung to foment anti-establishment sentiments in the hills.
The Gorkha community, though numerically in the minority when pitted against the combined population of the other tribes in Darjeeling - such as Lepchas, Bhutias, Tamangs etc - have always had a stranglehold over hill politics by virtue of their identity as the so-called elites among the ethnic groups in and around Darjeeling. From the Indian armed forces to the business community in the hills, the Gorkhas have always enjoyed a position of relative socio-economic superiority compared to the other tribes. Both Ghisingh and Gurung have cashed in on this reality.e state.

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