Alipurduar, June 24: Bimal Gurung
today said the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha had submitted a report on the
population break-up of the 391 mouzas in the Dooars and Terai to the
fact verification committee that would look into the recommendations of
the Justice Shyamal Sen commission.
The Morcha has been demanding that 396 mouzas in the plains be brought under the jurisdiction of the GTA Sabha.
But the Shyamal Sen panel had recommended the inclusion of only five mouzas in the autonomous body.
“We have
submitted a report to the fact verification committee on the population
of the 391 mouzas in the Dooars and Terai. We mentioned the percentage
of the Gorkhas and the adivasis in the report. The committee will visit
the Dooars and Terai to know the ground situation before submitting its
report. Our main demand is the inclusion of 396 mouzas in the GTA and if
it is not fulfilled, the Morcha will fight for it,” Morcha president
Gurung told journalists after addressing a meeting at Gopi Mohon ground
at Jaigaon, 64km from here.
In his address to
the meeting held as part of the panchayat election campaign, Gurung
said: “Biki Lama and Akbar Lama have sacrificed their lives for
Gorkhaland and I cannot forget their contribution. Now, we have adivasis
and Rajbangshis with us. Maoists were born as they were deprived for
long. Cast vote in favour of the JMM and the Morcha.”
Around 3,000
people attended the meeting that began at 2pm. More than 60 minutes into
the meeting, it started raining and still, the crowd didn’t disappear
as Gurung was yet to deliver his speech. Kalimpong MLA Harka Bahadur
Chettri and GTA Sabha members Pradeep Pradhan and P.T. Ola were on the
stage.
Gurung, who is
also the GTA Sabha chief executive, today visited Tala Basti, Hat Khola,
Pari Line, Chhetry Line and Bania Line under Dalshingpara gram
panchayat of Kalchini block to canvass for the candidates of the Morcha
and the JMM.
He told the media that half of the 500 seats in the Dooars were left uncontested by the Morcha and the JMM.
“We will declare a few days before the polls whom the Morcha and JMM supporters will support in these seats,” he added.
Jalpaiguri district will go to the polls on July 9.
The Telegraph
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