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Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League is a political party working amongst the Nepali_speaking population in northern West Bengal, India. The party was founded in 1943 by Damber Singh Gurung. The current general secretary is Amar Lama.


ABGL is a part of the People's Democratic Front, an alliance led by the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists. PDF constists of parties who work for Gorkha autonomy but are opposed to the Gorkhaland National Liberation Front.


ABGL has two out of 28 seats in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council.


Perhaps a party branch will be founded in Sikkim. ABGL had a branch there in the 1970s.


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Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (149 words)
Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League is a political party working amongst the Nepali-speaking population in northern West Bengal, India.
ABGL is a part of the People's Democratic Front, an alliance led by the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists.
ABGL has two out of 28 seats in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council.
India - Gorkhaland (968 words)
The ethnic identity "Gorkha" comes from the kingdom with that name that united Nepal in the late eighteenth century and was the focal point of Nepalese in the British army.
In 1928 the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (All India Gorkha League) was formed.
The Gorkhaland movement distinguished Darjiling Gorkhas from nationals of Nepal legally resident in India, from Nepali-speaking Indian citizens from other parts of the country, and even from the majority in neighboring Sikkim, where Nepali is the official language.
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