“The passing of the GTA Bill is a major achievement ….. It is one step forward for a Gorkhaland state,”
The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) leadership has called for a day of celebrations in the Darjeeling hills on Tuesday to mark the passing by the West Bengal Assembly of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Bill 2011 that paves the way for the setting up of a new autonomous self-governing body for the hills and certain mouzas in the Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling district. The Bill was passed on September 2.
The new body — the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) — is a step towards the creation of Gorkhaland, the GJM leadership has been iterating.
“The passing of the GTA Bill is a major achievement ….. It is one step forward for a Gorkhaland state,” GJM assistant general secretary Jyoti Kumar Rai told The Hindu over telephone from Darjeeling on Sunday, two days after the GJM MLA from Kalimpong, Harka Bahadur Chettri, had in the State Assembly expressed the hope that a day would come when the House “will justify the just demand for Gorkhaland”.
-The hindu
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