Darjeeling, 27 August : The GJMM has succeeded in proving its point beyond any shadow of doubt
that the party can paralyse education in the Hills if it wants to,
taking the students and their parents on board.
Thousands of students, studying from Class I to XII and many of them hailing from the rural areas of the Hills, gathered to sloganeer for Gorkhaland at Motor stand in Darjeeling ~ the venue the GJMM selected for the rally to raise the pitch for the demand for Gorkhaland.
Significantly, nullifying the theory doing the rounds in the Hills that the parents are reluctantly giving in to the GJMM diktats roping in the students for the statehood stir, many of them were found lined up on both sides of the roads, encouraging their wards to march ahead in response to the clarion call for Gorkhaland.
They chimed in occasionally, as the thoroughfare was reverberating with slogans ‘Mamata Banerjee, hai hai’.
But all the parents did not fall in line. One of them said the children should not be forced to shout such slogans that show contempt for the elders.
“We teach them to respect the elders and such slogans fly in the face of the moral qualities we seek to inculcate in the impressionable,” one of them said.
Countering the argument that they are being forced to participate in the movement in spite of themselves, a student said they had come here of their volition. “No one has forced us to join the rally,” said a student of Darjeeling Government College.
“My parents are in the thick of the movement. They are fighting so that we can get a better future in a state of our own. How can we allow ourselves to be left behind?” the student asked.
Enthused by the large turnout of the students in the party’s rally, the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung said on his Facebook page that the students of Darjeeling are ready to sacrifice their education for the cause of Gorkhaland.(SNS)
Thousands of students, studying from Class I to XII and many of them hailing from the rural areas of the Hills, gathered to sloganeer for Gorkhaland at Motor stand in Darjeeling ~ the venue the GJMM selected for the rally to raise the pitch for the demand for Gorkhaland.
Significantly, nullifying the theory doing the rounds in the Hills that the parents are reluctantly giving in to the GJMM diktats roping in the students for the statehood stir, many of them were found lined up on both sides of the roads, encouraging their wards to march ahead in response to the clarion call for Gorkhaland.
They chimed in occasionally, as the thoroughfare was reverberating with slogans ‘Mamata Banerjee, hai hai’.
But all the parents did not fall in line. One of them said the children should not be forced to shout such slogans that show contempt for the elders.
“We teach them to respect the elders and such slogans fly in the face of the moral qualities we seek to inculcate in the impressionable,” one of them said.
Countering the argument that they are being forced to participate in the movement in spite of themselves, a student said they had come here of their volition. “No one has forced us to join the rally,” said a student of Darjeeling Government College.
“My parents are in the thick of the movement. They are fighting so that we can get a better future in a state of our own. How can we allow ourselves to be left behind?” the student asked.
Enthused by the large turnout of the students in the party’s rally, the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung said on his Facebook page that the students of Darjeeling are ready to sacrifice their education for the cause of Gorkhaland.(SNS)
GJM students’ wing in Mirik takes up agitation baton
Following
GJM chief Bimal Gurung’s call to students and youths to come to the
forefront of the ongoing agitation, the party’s students’ wing today
brought out a massive rally in Mirik.
Mirik unit Vidyarthi Morcha president Chedup Waiba, secretary Rabin Giri and Mirik College Students’ Union secretary Binay Tamang addressed supporters after the rally.
They asserted the students’ are ready to take the Gorkhaland agitation forward and nothing besides a separate state can secure the future of students here. Another students’ rally was also held in Soureni Bazaar where slogans demanding a Gorkhaland state reverberated the air.
Meanwhile, three TMC members from Singbulli tea estate today joined the GJM. Rajkumar Chettri, Anand Chettri and Prasan Chettri, who quit the TMC, were welcomed by GJM Phuguri-Manju Zonal Committee members.
Mirik unit Vidyarthi Morcha president Chedup Waiba, secretary Rabin Giri and Mirik College Students’ Union secretary Binay Tamang addressed supporters after the rally.
They asserted the students’ are ready to take the Gorkhaland agitation forward and nothing besides a separate state can secure the future of students here. Another students’ rally was also held in Soureni Bazaar where slogans demanding a Gorkhaland state reverberated the air.
Meanwhile, three TMC members from Singbulli tea estate today joined the GJM. Rajkumar Chettri, Anand Chettri and Prasan Chettri, who quit the TMC, were welcomed by GJM Phuguri-Manju Zonal Committee members.
Teenagers pick up cudgel of statehood movement
Youngsters turned up in their thousands in Darjeeling on the first day of the five-day “teenager” agitation for statehood called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha.
The unrelenting crackdown and arrests of senior leaders and activists by forced GJM chief Bimal Gurung on Sunday to call on youngsters to participate in the movement.
Teenagers, including young children, shouting “We want Gorkhaland” slogans and carrying anti-state government placards arrived at the motor stand area in several trucks and small vehicles. A rally was first organised around the town area followed by a public meeting.
“Our family members are currently agitating for a separate state in-spite of the state government’s atrocities. A Gorkhaland state is for our future. We too must come out and support the movement,” said Rohit Vikram Sharma, a member of the Gorkha Janmukti Vidhyarthi Morcha.
The GJM chief witnessed the goings on from the top of a building at the opposite end of the stand.
After the rally and public meeting, a press meet ensued where GJM assistant secretary Jyoti Kumar Rai said, “The youngsters have come on their own to support the statehood demand as their future too depend on it. We are only a medium and providing leadership to the ongoing people’s movement.”
The GJM has so far limited itself to demonstrations and rallies, but a future course of action is in the offing as the party’s central committee will sit for a meeting on Wednesday.
“We will sit for a meeting tomorrow with study forum members, our frontal organisations and sub-divisional committee and discuss the ongoing agitation and what needs to be done further,” informed Rai.
The Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee (GJAC), a conglomeration of seven political and apolitical parties of which the GJM is a component, will announce their future programme on August 30 after a meeting.
Meanwhile, Kalimpong police today arrested four GJM activists for torching a vehicle. The four are Pranay Chhetri (24), Subash Rai (36), Bhupal Chhetri (36) and a person named Albert (29).
“We arrested the four GJM activists today from the 3rd Mile area between Kalimpong town and Pedong after they set ablaze a vehicle,” said Darjeeling SP Kunal Agarwal.
But the GJM denied its activists’ involvement in the incident. “We have come to know about the burning of a car in Kalimpong. Our supporters did not have any role in it because we have given clear instructions to refrain from undemocratic activities. It is a conspiracy to malign our party,” asserted the GJM assistant secretary.(EOI)
The unrelenting crackdown and arrests of senior leaders and activists by forced GJM chief Bimal Gurung on Sunday to call on youngsters to participate in the movement.
Teenagers, including young children, shouting “We want Gorkhaland” slogans and carrying anti-state government placards arrived at the motor stand area in several trucks and small vehicles. A rally was first organised around the town area followed by a public meeting.
“Our family members are currently agitating for a separate state in-spite of the state government’s atrocities. A Gorkhaland state is for our future. We too must come out and support the movement,” said Rohit Vikram Sharma, a member of the Gorkha Janmukti Vidhyarthi Morcha.
The GJM chief witnessed the goings on from the top of a building at the opposite end of the stand.
After the rally and public meeting, a press meet ensued where GJM assistant secretary Jyoti Kumar Rai said, “The youngsters have come on their own to support the statehood demand as their future too depend on it. We are only a medium and providing leadership to the ongoing people’s movement.”
The GJM has so far limited itself to demonstrations and rallies, but a future course of action is in the offing as the party’s central committee will sit for a meeting on Wednesday.
“We will sit for a meeting tomorrow with study forum members, our frontal organisations and sub-divisional committee and discuss the ongoing agitation and what needs to be done further,” informed Rai.
The Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee (GJAC), a conglomeration of seven political and apolitical parties of which the GJM is a component, will announce their future programme on August 30 after a meeting.
Meanwhile, Kalimpong police today arrested four GJM activists for torching a vehicle. The four are Pranay Chhetri (24), Subash Rai (36), Bhupal Chhetri (36) and a person named Albert (29).
“We arrested the four GJM activists today from the 3rd Mile area between Kalimpong town and Pedong after they set ablaze a vehicle,” said Darjeeling SP Kunal Agarwal.
But the GJM denied its activists’ involvement in the incident. “We have come to know about the burning of a car in Kalimpong. Our supporters did not have any role in it because we have given clear instructions to refrain from undemocratic activities. It is a conspiracy to malign our party,” asserted the GJM assistant secretary.(EOI)
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