Ahead of polling in the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal, former foreign secretary Harsha Vardhan Sringhla has said that Darjeeling is a unique constituency with a lot of strategic importance.
“It (Darjeeling Lok sabha seat) has three international borders. Within that constituency you have India-Nepal border, India-Bhutan border and India-Bangladesh border. If you go further north in Sikkim then you have border with Tibet and China,” Mr. Shringla said while participating in a panel discussion with Kolkata-based think tank Iravati Research and Communication Centre.
The former foreign secretary who hails from Darjeeling said the region is a strategic part of the country and very vulnerable from “outside and within”.
