Darjeeling, April 30: Bimal Gurung
and other senior Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders will leave for Haridwar
and Dehradun tomorrow to campaign for BJP candidates.
The delegation
includes central committee members of the party Binay Tamang, Harka
Bahadur Chhetri, Raju Pradhan and Diwarkar Gurung, apart from the Morcha
president.
“We will be
campaigning mostly in Dehradun and Haridwar where a sizeable number of
Gorkhas live. The delegation will return on May 8,” said Binay Tamang,
the assistant secretary of the Morcha.
The Morcha today
held a “review meeting” of the party to take stock of the organisational
strength and the expected performance by the party in the just
concluded Lok Sabha elections.
Gurung today sounded confident of winning the Darjeeling seat “comfortably”.
“We will win the
seat comfortably. However, soon after the results are announced the
state government might announce dates for two-tier panchayat system. We
will, however, not accept two-tier elections and we will even go to
court for implementation of the three-tier rural polls as this has been
agreed in the memorandum of agreement,” Gurung said.
The state government has not said anything yet about two-tier rural elections in the hills.
Gurung also told
his party leaders that the organisation has to be further strengthened
in the hills. “During the Lok Sabha elections, some of the party leaders
were overburdened. Proper co-ordination must be there in all
organistations,” he said.
In the just concluded Lok Sabha election, the Morcha supported BJP candidate S.S. Ahluwalia in Darjeeling.(TT)