The fortunes of the Trinamool Congress are not looking good in the hills of Darjeeling. After losing both the Lok Sabha seat as well as the Assembly bypoll from Darjeeling, the TMC may now also lose the Darjeeling municipality.
18 Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) councillors of the total 32 councillors in the Darjeeling municipality have signed a no-confidence motion stating that they are defecting from the Tamang faction of the party to the Gurung faction.
The GJM saw a split in 2017 after Darjeeling saw massive violence over the Gorkhaland issue. The Binay Tamang faction of the GJM is friendly with the Trinamool Congress while the Bimal Gurung faction has joined hands with arch enemies GNLF to back the BJP in the region.