GTA: MLAs caution state govt
20 March 2012
KOLKATA, 20 MARCH: State legislators, cutting across party lines, today
called upon the government to move cautiously on the issue of Gorkha
Territorial Administration (GTA) during the discussion on the Governor's
speech in the Assembly today.
Congress MLA Debaprasad Roy called upon the government not to make a "political wound" in the Terai-Dooars region, which is inhabited by many ethnic groups. State Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya has already written a letter to the committee, headed Mr Justice (retired) Shyamal Sen, urging it not to include areas from the region, Mr Roy told reporters later in the Assembly lobby. The area has to be properly demarcated, otherwise it would continue to be a festering sore like the border dispute between Assam and Nagaland.
CPI-M MLA Anisur Rahman said that unless the government treads warily on the Gorkhaland issue, it will find itself in an explosive situation. Forward Bloc MLA Paresh Adhikari said that the GJMM has demanded 396 moujas from the Terai-Dooars region. While the Governor made a brief speech stating the ills of the previous Left Front regime, he made a longer address this time stating the achievements of the present government, Mr Rahman said earlier. Given Miss Mamata Banerjee's fast for the Singur farmers, one would have thought peasant's welfare would have been the priority of her government. But reports of peasants deaths are pouring in, he added.
The Governor's speech can be ascribed to low performance of the Left Front government while he spoke at length about its successor's achievements as there are many such deeds, Trinamul Congress legislator Mr Paras Dutta said. The words and deeds of chief minister Mamata Banerjee do not match, Mr Subhas Nasskar of RSP said. During her trip to the Sunderbans, there was no mention of giving a job to the member of a family who had given land to build embankment damaged by cyclone Aila, though she had promised it earlier. sns
Congress MLA Debaprasad Roy called upon the government not to make a "political wound" in the Terai-Dooars region, which is inhabited by many ethnic groups. State Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya has already written a letter to the committee, headed Mr Justice (retired) Shyamal Sen, urging it not to include areas from the region, Mr Roy told reporters later in the Assembly lobby. The area has to be properly demarcated, otherwise it would continue to be a festering sore like the border dispute between Assam and Nagaland.
CPI-M MLA Anisur Rahman said that unless the government treads warily on the Gorkhaland issue, it will find itself in an explosive situation. Forward Bloc MLA Paresh Adhikari said that the GJMM has demanded 396 moujas from the Terai-Dooars region. While the Governor made a brief speech stating the ills of the previous Left Front regime, he made a longer address this time stating the achievements of the present government, Mr Rahman said earlier. Given Miss Mamata Banerjee's fast for the Singur farmers, one would have thought peasant's welfare would have been the priority of her government. But reports of peasants deaths are pouring in, he added.
The Governor's speech can be ascribed to low performance of the Left Front government while he spoke at length about its successor's achievements as there are many such deeds, Trinamul Congress legislator Mr Paras Dutta said. The words and deeds of chief minister Mamata Banerjee do not match, Mr Subhas Nasskar of RSP said. During her trip to the Sunderbans, there was no mention of giving a job to the member of a family who had given land to build embankment damaged by cyclone Aila, though she had promised it earlier. sns
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