Mizoram Gorkhas support Gorkhaland

Aizawl, Dec 21 (PTI) Members of the Gorkha community in Mizoram staged a sit-in demonstration here today to express solidarity with the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), who are demanding a separate Gorkhaland state by carving out part of Darjeeling district of West Bengal.

The demonstration was organised on a day when tripartite talks were held in Darjeeling.

"Gorkhaland is the only solution to the identity crisis being faced by the Gorkha community in India," the demonstrating Gorkhas said in a statement.

Mizoram has a sizable Gorkha population and many of them are here from before Independence.