Darjeeling, 28 October
A day after the GJMM chief, Mr Bimal Gurung had accused the state chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee of attempting to sow schism within the Gorkha community, the Hill unit of the CPI-M today blamed the GJMM for the same.
“The adventurist brand of GJMM politics has helped the ruling party to build bases at their expense. The TMC keeps gaining ground, using the tomfoolery of the GJMM leaders up to the hilt,” said a senior Hill-based Marxist leader, Mr KB Wattar. “We had asked the GJMM to focus on development. But they revived the statehood stir and paralysed the Hills for 35 days. Economy, education, trade crumbled and the people, particularly, the wage workers and the farmers, were at the receiving end. The people are now swelling the ruling party’s ranks out of frustration, to get respite from the anathema of shutdown politics,” he said.
“The people would suffer again as the TMC and GJMM are set to fight ~ one to protect its turfs from being encroached and the other to build its own turf at the expense of the preponderant party. This might engulf the Hill into another bout of turmoil,” the Marxist leader warned.
In the same breath, he supported the GJMM for changing tacks. “It is good that right sense has dawned upon them. They are now on the right track, focusing on development and saying no to bandhs,” he said.(SNS)
A day after the GJMM chief, Mr Bimal Gurung had accused the state chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee of attempting to sow schism within the Gorkha community, the Hill unit of the CPI-M today blamed the GJMM for the same.
“The adventurist brand of GJMM politics has helped the ruling party to build bases at their expense. The TMC keeps gaining ground, using the tomfoolery of the GJMM leaders up to the hilt,” said a senior Hill-based Marxist leader, Mr KB Wattar. “We had asked the GJMM to focus on development. But they revived the statehood stir and paralysed the Hills for 35 days. Economy, education, trade crumbled and the people, particularly, the wage workers and the farmers, were at the receiving end. The people are now swelling the ruling party’s ranks out of frustration, to get respite from the anathema of shutdown politics,” he said.
“The people would suffer again as the TMC and GJMM are set to fight ~ one to protect its turfs from being encroached and the other to build its own turf at the expense of the preponderant party. This might engulf the Hill into another bout of turmoil,” the Marxist leader warned.
In the same breath, he supported the GJMM for changing tacks. “It is good that right sense has dawned upon them. They are now on the right track, focusing on development and saying no to bandhs,” he said.(SNS)
Pratap Khati condemns GJM for failing in every aspect
Kalimpong, Pradip Lohagun: All
India Gorkha League general secretary Pratap Khati today accused the
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leadership of failing in every aspect of its
statehood agitation.
According to Khati, he now sees the
possibility of the formation of an alliance comprising both political
and non-political groups for the statehood cause. He also urged all
political and apolitical parties in the hills to carefully analyse the
present political situation and formulate strategies accordingly.
Commenting on December’s Delhi-based
programme of the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, the AIGL leader said, “The
BGP is taking new initiatives but it had allied with the GJM earlier and
were following that party blindly. We do not think the BGP’s plans will
be successful.”
Khati went to accuse the GJM leadership
of creating unnecessary problems for the general public with the recent
agitation that has ultimately been scuppered. He also rejected any
possibility of the AIGL’s alliance with the BGP-led Gorkhaland Task
Force even as he urged one and all to keep faith in the dream of a
Gorkhaland state.
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