Prominent Gorkha leaders join Bharatiya Janata Party

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: A number of Gorka leaders, including All Assam Gorkha Students’ Union’s (AAGSU) former president Prem Tamang, Assam Gorkha Sanmilan’s former working president Krishna Bhujel, AAGSU leaders Sanjib Khadka Chetry, singer Tilak Newar, Shankar Lama, Mohan Sarma, Raju Tamang, Purna Chetry, Purna Kirat Rai, and others, joined the BJP at a function in Guwahati on Thursday. Besides Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, NEDA convener Himanta Biswa Sarma and State BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass, other top leaders of the party were also present at the joining ceremony.

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