CPRM to stage dharna in Delhi
6 March 2012
statesman news service
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.
6 March 2012
statesman news service
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.
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