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Times Online wrote:

Members of India’s elite Rapid Action Force and Border Security Force cordoned off sections of the town of Silguri in West Bengal as police charged to quell rioting by thousands of people divided by their support for the winner and the runner-up of the global TV phenomenon. Prashant Tamang, a 24-year-old former policeman of Nepali origin from Darjeeling, won Indian Idol 3 on Sunday night, beating Amit Paul, a Bengali singer from the small hilltribe state of Meghalaya and the judges’ favourite. Tamang's surprise win sparked unrest in India’s troubled north-east region where supporters of Paul attacked Nepalese in Shillong town, the capital of Meghalaya. The violence was later exacerbated by a Delhi radio DJ who made allegedly “insulting” comments about Tamang and the Gurkha population from which he is descended.

I hope that peace returns in Siliguri quickly. Prashant Tamang has acted well and I wish that his supporters don’t get too excited and listen to his appeal.