SILIGURI, 6 MARCH: Apparently taking advantage of the dilly-dallying over implementation of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration agreement and the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha’s discomfiture, the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) will stage a dharna at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on 20 March, demanding restoration of peace and democracy in the Darjeeling Hills.
The Gorkhaland Task Force (GTF), an anti-GJMM political conglomeration, will stage a sit-in at the same venue on 19 March, demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland. The CPRM is a constituent of the GTF, which also includes the All India Gorkha League (AIGL), the Gorkha National Liberation Front (C) and a few other social outfits.
Dwelling on the objective behind his party’s proposed agitation in the national Capital, CPRM president RB Rai said the Opposition parties in the Hills have been at the receiving end as the state government has said nothing about the GJMM’s authoritarianism in the Hills. The GJMM has been spearheading the Gorkhaland agitation for the past few years.
“Chief minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have made it a habit to visit the Hills frequently with a plethora of false promises. The visits are meant to keep her ally, the GJMM, in good humour. These have nothing to do with the common people. The common people on their part do not set much store by her promises as they know the development cacophony is a political exercise of the ruling party and the GJMM,” he said.
Another senior party leader, Mr Taramani Rai, said the chief minister had instructed police to act leniently with the upcoming GJMM agitation in view of the uncertainty shrouding the GTA agreement. “A responsible state government with a semblance of commitment to the rule of law and administrative impartiality can hardly go for such a course. This would further embolden the GJMM to mount attacks on the institutions of democracy like the media and dissenting Opposition. We will highlight the state government’s active connivance with the GJMM’s muscle-powered politics during the Delhi agitation,” he said.
Echoing the CPRM, senior CPI-M leader and former state urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya, said Miss Banerjee’s objective was to ask the Darjeeling district administration to dance on the GJMM’s strings in the coming days. “Justice regarding the Madan Tamang murder case is a far-away dream with the state government straining every nerve to shield those involved,” he added. Tamang, former president of the AIGL, was killed in Darjeeling in 2010.
The Gorkhaland Task Force (GTF), an anti-GJMM political conglomeration, will stage a sit-in at the same venue on 19 March, demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland. The CPRM is a constituent of the GTF, which also includes the All India Gorkha League (AIGL), the Gorkha National Liberation Front (C) and a few other social outfits.
Dwelling on the objective behind his party’s proposed agitation in the national Capital, CPRM president RB Rai said the Opposition parties in the Hills have been at the receiving end as the state government has said nothing about the GJMM’s authoritarianism in the Hills. The GJMM has been spearheading the Gorkhaland agitation for the past few years.
“Chief minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have made it a habit to visit the Hills frequently with a plethora of false promises. The visits are meant to keep her ally, the GJMM, in good humour. These have nothing to do with the common people. The common people on their part do not set much store by her promises as they know the development cacophony is a political exercise of the ruling party and the GJMM,” he said.
Another senior party leader, Mr Taramani Rai, said the chief minister had instructed police to act leniently with the upcoming GJMM agitation in view of the uncertainty shrouding the GTA agreement. “A responsible state government with a semblance of commitment to the rule of law and administrative impartiality can hardly go for such a course. This would further embolden the GJMM to mount attacks on the institutions of democracy like the media and dissenting Opposition. We will highlight the state government’s active connivance with the GJMM’s muscle-powered politics during the Delhi agitation,” he said.
Echoing the CPRM, senior CPI-M leader and former state urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya, said Miss Banerjee’s objective was to ask the Darjeeling district administration to dance on the GJMM’s strings in the coming days. “Justice regarding the Madan Tamang murder case is a far-away dream with the state government straining every nerve to shield those involved,” he added. Tamang, former president of the AIGL, was killed in Darjeeling in 2010.
statesman news service
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