Leaders leave for India to garner support for repatriation

Kakarvitta, June 26: In an effort to garner more support toward repatriation from India government and well wishers, the Bhutanese leaders in exile have left for India on Monday.

Three separate teams of leaders have left for separate Indian cities to hold talks with Indian ministers, party representatives and human rights activists.

Narad Adhikari, Gopal Gurung and Rajman Gurung teamed up for New Delhi while another team of D. B. Rana Sampang, T. B. Thapa, T. R. Rai and K. B. Gurung left for Darjeeling and Sikkim to see support from the local people on the way during repatriation.

The third team of D. P. Kafle Kin Dorji left for Kolkata to seek support from the West Bengal government.

The initiative has been taken after the National Front for Democracy (NFD) suspended the Long March campaign for addition one month from June 15. In lat week of May, the Indian authority had obstructed the march at Mechi Bridge. Bhutan News Service