"We would now request the Centre to similarly consider the just and fair demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland, which is among the oldest in the country," Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supremo Bimal Gurung said in a Facebook post.        

"Today's passage of the Telengana Bill makes it clear that state consent is not necessary for its bifurcation, a fact which we have been reiterating for a long time," he said.