The aim was unstated but clear

The Darjeeling Hills may be heading for a protracted spell of uncertainty, with the Gorkhaland Janmukti Morcha calling for a month-long shutdown of state government offices, civic agencies and banks from Monday.
The GJM’s call for total non-cooperation with the Bengal government and the renewed demand for Gorkhaland came within hours of CM Mamata Banerjee ruling out any “compromise” with forces using “bombs and stones”.
GJM supporters had played party-pooper on Thursday, hurling bombs and pelting stones at cops and burning down a dozen police vans and a state transport bus, even as Banerjee chaired Bengal’s first state cabinet meeting in Darjeeling in 44 years inside the Raj Bhavan.government offices will not be allowed to work and banks will be allowed to work only twice a week (on Mondays and Thursdays); but educational institutions and transport and emergency services, like water, conservancy, electricity and courts, are exempt from the closure. The aim was unstated but clear: don’t ki!ll off tourism and allow people to go about normal life as much as possible but paralyse the state administration.

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