Kolkata: The All India Gorkha League today threatened a relay hunger strike from June 21 if the CD of purported conversations among GJM leaders on the day of Madan Tamang’s murder is not given to the CBI by the state government in one month.
ABGL today observed the second death anniversary of its leader Madan Tamang in Darjeeling with a memorial meeting where major leaders opposed to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, including Subash Ghising and Chhatrey Subba, were invited. Ghising and Subba did not attend the meeting, but senior CPM leader and former minister Ashok Bhattacharya was present.
“We organised the event to mark the second death anniversary of our leader. We have learnt that a digital file containing telephonic conversations of hill leaders named in the FIR is in the custody of the chief minister and she is refusing to hand it over to the CBI. If the CBI gets hold of the file, senior Morcha leaders could be arrested. We have requested the chief minister to hand over the recording, but we are yet to get any response. We want justice. So we have decided to give a month’s time to the government to hand over the digital file to the CBI. If it is not done, we will start a relay hunger strike from June 21,” said Pratap Khati, general secretary of ABGL.
“We will observe the strike for 10 days initially, but if the state government does not respond, Bharti Tamang, Madan Tamang’s wife, will fast unto death,” he added.
AIGL leaders in their speech hinted that the state government is not handing over the CD to the CBI for vested interests. “With the help of the CD, the state government is able to make the GJM leaders do everything it wants,” Khati added.
Meanwhile, the administration today organised a huge security set-up for the meeting. Bharti Tamang said, “Had there been this sort of security arrangement on May 21, 2010, my husband would not have been murdered in broad daylight.” Madan Tamang was killed by a khukri-wielding mob that day.
The GJM, which had also organised a public meeting in Darjeeling today, backed out from holding the meeting at the last moment.
Morcha leaders said the meeting had been cancelled to avoid the risk of fresh tension in Darjeeling, particularly when party president Bimal Gurung is insisting that polls to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration be held by July.
ABGL today observed the second death anniversary of its leader Madan Tamang in Darjeeling with a memorial meeting where major leaders opposed to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, including Subash Ghising and Chhatrey Subba, were invited. Ghising and Subba did not attend the meeting, but senior CPM leader and former minister Ashok Bhattacharya was present.
“We organised the event to mark the second death anniversary of our leader. We have learnt that a digital file containing telephonic conversations of hill leaders named in the FIR is in the custody of the chief minister and she is refusing to hand it over to the CBI. If the CBI gets hold of the file, senior Morcha leaders could be arrested. We have requested the chief minister to hand over the recording, but we are yet to get any response. We want justice. So we have decided to give a month’s time to the government to hand over the digital file to the CBI. If it is not done, we will start a relay hunger strike from June 21,” said Pratap Khati, general secretary of ABGL.
“We will observe the strike for 10 days initially, but if the state government does not respond, Bharti Tamang, Madan Tamang’s wife, will fast unto death,” he added.
AIGL leaders in their speech hinted that the state government is not handing over the CD to the CBI for vested interests. “With the help of the CD, the state government is able to make the GJM leaders do everything it wants,” Khati added.
Meanwhile, the administration today organised a huge security set-up for the meeting. Bharti Tamang said, “Had there been this sort of security arrangement on May 21, 2010, my husband would not have been murdered in broad daylight.” Madan Tamang was killed by a khukri-wielding mob that day.
The GJM, which had also organised a public meeting in Darjeeling today, backed out from holding the meeting at the last moment.
Morcha leaders said the meeting had been cancelled to avoid the risk of fresh tension in Darjeeling, particularly when party president Bimal Gurung is insisting that polls to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration be held by July.
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