To adequately address the identity issue
of the Nepali speaking people, especially that of the Gorkha community,
the Nepali language should be given the linguistic minority status,
former Rajya Sabha MP and CPM candidate from Darjeeling Saman Pathak
said during a party programme today at Gorkha Jan Pustakalay in
Kurseong.
According to Pathak neither separate
Gorkhaland state nor can the sixth schedule and any autonomous body
resolve the identity crisis of the Gorkha population in the country.
He also lambasted the BJP party and the
Congress for allegedly playing with the sentiments of the hill people to
get their votes in the forthcoming general election.
He said the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha,
which has decided to Support BJP in the Lok Sabha poll, must understand
that the BJP is a pro-Hindu communal party and it never respects the
ideology secularism.
Taking a dig at the Congress party the
CPM leader said, “Everyone in country now comprehend the fact that how
corrupt the Congress party is as well as its government.” He also
slammed the party over the issue of price hike of the essential
commodities during its rule.
Attacking the state ruling party
Trinamool Congress, he said TMC is a party which is applying the noxious
divide and rule policy in the hills to secure its seats.
Appealing the people of the Hills to
vote for CPM, Pathak said the party wants a permanent political solution
in Darjeeling hills through Amendment 244 of the Sixth Schedule status
to Darjeeling hills. He also said that the party has been demanding
North-East status to Darjeeling hills.(EOIC)