Look at how incomplete North East India looks without inclusion of Darjeeling-Duars in the region.
The empty geographical space between Sikkim and rest of the NE India is the region that requires permanent political solution.
It represents three major political aspirations: Gorkhaland, Kamtapur and Greater Coochbehar.
Even if fulfilling all three aspirations is not possible at the moment, we can think of clubbing all three into one collective aspiration and work out a common political solution to all by creating a single separate state consisting of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Coochbehar Paliamentary Constituences.
And later in time if it is, somehow, joined by Sikkim and Bodoland, it would be strategically the most formidable state in the country with four international borders and and also act as a gateway to the entire SouthEast Asia. The critical and strategic chicken neck would be under its control. With five+ MPs under its fold and super strategic location, the bargaining power of this state across power corridors in Delhi would be immense and unimaginable.
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