Birsa Tirkey to campaign against JMM

SILIGURI, 11 APRIL: Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad state president Birsa Tirkey is scheduled to campaign against the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha in the Terai-Dooars region at a time when the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) has tied up with the JMM to contest the upcoming rural polls in the Dooars.

Mr Tirkey would visit two Adivasi-dominated tea plantations at Sukna

and at Naxalbari in Darjeeling district tomorrow on the issue of fallow lands, which were allegedly transferred to others for commercial purposes.

Mr Tirkey would visit the Dooars and hold a series of meetings with Adivasi villagers in different tea belts from Saturday to Tuesday to strengthen the base of his outfit.

“We would start campaigning against the JMM branding it as an ‘enemy party’ for Adivasi people in the Terai-Dooars. Our main object is to isolate the GJMM-JMM in the Dooars on the issue of land. We have

planned to send a message to the people that JMM has made a political understanding with the GJMM, which demanded additional land from the Terai-Dooars region for the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA),” Mr Tirkey said.

“At present we are free from mental anxiety and enough time to put the organisation in order because the fate of the rural polls is still uncertain because the matter is sub-judice,” he added.

statesman news service