Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti (Indian Gorkha People's Power) is a political party

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 in the Darjeeling District

Darjeeling district

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 of the India

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n state of West Bengal

West Bengal

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. BGJS was launched in 1998, anticipating the 1999 Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council

Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council

Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council , also once known for a short period of time as Darjeeling Gorkha Autonomous Hill Council , is a semi-autonomous body that looks after the administration of the Darjeeling District in the state of West Bengal, India...

 (DGHC) elections. BGJS was part of the United Front launched by Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists

Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists

Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists is a political party based in the Darjeeling District of the Indian state of West Bengal. CPRM was formed in 1996 by Communist Party of India dissidents like former State Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Tamang Dawa Lama, Lok Sabha MP R.B...

 and Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League

Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League

Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League is a political party working amongst the Nepali-speaking population in Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India. The party was founded in 1943 by Damber Singh Gurung. The current president is Bharati Tamang, widow of late Madan Tamang, a former president of ABGL...

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BGJS demanded that the Gorkha

Gurkha

Gurkha are people from Nepal who take their name from the Gorkha District. Gurkhas are best known for their history in the Indian Army's Gorkha regiments, the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas and the Nepalese Army. Gurkha units are closely associated with the kukri, a forward-curving Nepalese knife...

s should be included as Scheduled Tribes (giving access to quotas and reservations) and that the area of DHGC should be reorganized.

In 2003, BGJS was revived, anticipating the DGHC elections the following year which eventually was not held.

The president of BGJS is C.R. Rai.