After a meeting of Gorkha leaders with Mamata on August 29, Viy Tamang, Joint Secretary of the Morcha, and Anit Thapa, member of the Executive Committee, took the leaders and the agitators by surprise by asking them to end the bandh because positive but unidentifiable developments were expected by September 12. By that time the next round of meetings with Rajth Singh and Mamata would have been held, they said. Well, September 12 too has come and gone and there is no sight of the bandh coming to an end. Little wonder most of the Gorkha leaders, Bimal Gurung, Viy Tamang, Anit Thapa, are on a rapidly declining popularity graph. Impulsively, Bimal Gurung leapt into the bandh when Mamata wanted Bengali to be inserted in the three language formula. Later she withdrew her word. But by that time the GJM and the coordition committee of other Hill parties were fairly advanced on a high-wire act. An endless bandh was on. (IANS)