Darjeeling unlimited: new party vows to end region’s strife

Hamro's leader promises new start for Indian hill station after years of strikes and insurgencies

India's romantic hill station Darjeeling has evoked images of beautiful tea-growing gardens but also, for those who follow its politics, of industrial strikes and violent insurgencies.

No more, says the leader of a new political party that swept to power in recent municipal polls, vowing to end years of agitation that have blighted the region's main sources of income: tea and tourism.