WB: Army deployed in Darjeeling as Gorkhaland movement turns violent

DARJEELING: The army was called out in Darjeeling on Thursday after waves of young stone-throwers ran circles round police and torched security vehicles soon after Mamata Banerjee had ended the first cabinet meeting in the hills in 45 years. Suspicion that the Bengali language would be imposed on the hills' schoolchildren - despite an assurance from the chief minister that it would not - sparked the violence at a time more than 10,000 tourists are holidaying in Darjeeling.

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