KS Moktan (left) and Karma Yonzone with their awards in Darjeeling on Thursday. Picture by Passang Yolmo July 13: Three prominent faces of Darjeeling today returned awards the state government had conferred on them. "We support the (statehood) movement and we are returning the awards in protest against the state's oppression. The two others who returned their awards were Karma Yonzone, a music composer who was awarded the Sangeet Samman in 2016, and Prabhat Pradhan, a former principal of Kurseong College. We are being threatened and many of us have fled to Siliguri," a hill Trinamul leader said.

Source: The Telegraph July 13, 2017 21:33 UTC