Darjeeling: With barely a week to go for the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's (GJM) March 27 deadline to hit the streets to protest the state government's inordinate delay in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) formulation, party top brass on Sunday announced a slew of agitation programmes to keep the Mamata Banerjee government on the tenterhooks.
"It seems the state government is trying to fool us. We will not accept anything without the inclusion of areas from the Terai and Dooars. Our March 27 deadline stands and we will take the agitation path," party president Bimal Gurung said while addressing a gathering at Mungpoo on Sunday.
GJM has decided to start their show of dissent by making its three MLAs boycott the assembly session. It will be followed by a padayatra from Darjeeling on April 7 that is expected to reach Nagrakata in the Dooars on April 18. On the same day, a public meeting will be organized there to announce GJM's next steps.
"We accepted the GTA with the intention to develop the Hills and the Dooars. When we signed the pact, we were of the view that the plains will be included. We had no apprehensions that the state government would try to betray us," Gurung said. He also fumed over the fact that the ruling party never kept GJM in the loop while formulating the GTA.
TOI
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