India: Campaign for Gorkhaland May Disrupt Travel to Darjeeling
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |A campaign for a new state called Gorkhaland in the Darjeeling region caused a West Bengal minister to warn tourists not to travel to the area, stating that demonstrations would disrupt travel, create shortages of drinking water and cause power cuts. A spokesman for the political party behind the Gorkhaland campaign dismissed the warning as irresponsible because the whole region depends on tourism and vowed that any demonstrations will not affect tourists in any way. The truth is somewhere in between because there have been cases of travel disruption, but significant obstruction of tourism in Darjeeling is unlikely.
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