Siliguri, 2 October
With uncertainty hovering over the proposed tripartite meeting on the Hill crisis as the state government remains bent on scuttling it, the GJMM general secretary Mr Roshan Giri today claimed that the meeting would be held as scheduled. However, in the same breath, he said the communication they had received from the Centre on the meeting was verbal. “I have not received any communication in black and white. I received verbal information about the meeting from a Union home ministry official over phone on Monday,” Mr Giri said.
Reacting to the state government’s supposed reluctance on convening the meeting, he said: “The matter would be discussed. It is up to the state government whether it would continue scuppering the Centre’s initiative. The matter will be discussed in the party forums before 20 October.”
The GJMM and Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee had called off the statehood stir following the Centre’s assurance on the meeting. The stir was
suspended for a period from 11 September till 20 October to facilitate the meeting to be held.
According to the GJMM insiders, the state government keeps stonewalling the tripartite meeting on the assumption that the representatives from the GJMM would rake up the issue of Gorkhaland during the meeting. “It is certain that we would not allow the meeting to get focused on the issue of the implementation of the GTA. We would raise the statehood issue as the GTA has lost relevance for us no matter what the official agenda of the meeting would be,” said a senior GJMM leader who did not want to be named.
Observers said the Centre cannot convene the tripartite meeting without taking the state government on board. “The onus for such a meeting primarily lies with the state government. The Centre cannot take any initiative on its own,” an observer said.(SNS)
With uncertainty hovering over the proposed tripartite meeting on the Hill crisis as the state government remains bent on scuttling it, the GJMM general secretary Mr Roshan Giri today claimed that the meeting would be held as scheduled. However, in the same breath, he said the communication they had received from the Centre on the meeting was verbal. “I have not received any communication in black and white. I received verbal information about the meeting from a Union home ministry official over phone on Monday,” Mr Giri said.
Reacting to the state government’s supposed reluctance on convening the meeting, he said: “The matter would be discussed. It is up to the state government whether it would continue scuppering the Centre’s initiative. The matter will be discussed in the party forums before 20 October.”
The GJMM and Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee had called off the statehood stir following the Centre’s assurance on the meeting. The stir was
suspended for a period from 11 September till 20 October to facilitate the meeting to be held.
According to the GJMM insiders, the state government keeps stonewalling the tripartite meeting on the assumption that the representatives from the GJMM would rake up the issue of Gorkhaland during the meeting. “It is certain that we would not allow the meeting to get focused on the issue of the implementation of the GTA. We would raise the statehood issue as the GTA has lost relevance for us no matter what the official agenda of the meeting would be,” said a senior GJMM leader who did not want to be named.
Observers said the Centre cannot convene the tripartite meeting without taking the state government on board. “The onus for such a meeting primarily lies with the state government. The Centre cannot take any initiative on its own,” an observer said.(SNS)
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