The land verification committee being chaired by Justice (retd) Shyamal Sen has finally called the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad state president, Mr Birsa Tirkey for hearing on the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)’s land expansion issue on 9 February.
However, the outfit, which claims to be championing the Adivasi cause, has remained in a sulk mode over the committee’s decision to involve the splinter group leader, Mr John Barla in the process of hearing. “It is now unjust to call Barla even a rebel ABAVP leader as he has been expelled from the outfit on charge of harming the interests of the constituency it represents,” said the state outfit president, Mr Birsha Tirkey.
Notably, Mr Barla has been asked to appear before the chairman of the high-powered committee on 13 February-an opportunity which he is likely to use to the hilt to include several hundred moujas across the Terai-Dooars within the GTA’s geographical jurisdiction.
However, the outfit, which claims to be championing the Adivasi cause, has remained in a sulk mode over the committee’s decision to involve the splinter group leader, Mr John Barla in the process of hearing. “It is now unjust to call Barla even a rebel ABAVP leader as he has been expelled from the outfit on charge of harming the interests of the constituency it represents,” said the state outfit president, Mr Birsha Tirkey.
Notably, Mr Barla has been asked to appear before the chairman of the high-powered committee on 13 February-an opportunity which he is likely to use to the hilt to include several hundred moujas across the Terai-Dooars within the GTA’s geographical jurisdiction.
Statesmen News Service
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