Gurung says GJMM will not change stance on GTA election
23 March 2012
statesman news service
SILIGURI, 23 MARCH: Sounding adamant on the contentious land issue, the GJMM chief, Mr Bimal Gurung, today said the land issue alone would figure during the discussion with chief minister Mamata Banerjee tomorrow.
“There can be only one agenda for the talks and it is the land issue. Nothing can persuade us to backtrack on this demand. We have struggled a lot and we are prepared to make more sacrifices in the future. The GTA election can be held only after the moujas are included in the autonomous body,” he said to reporters at Bagdogra airport before leaving for Kolkata.
The GJMM president said his party would not budge an inch from its avowed stance. “We will reiterate our position on the matter tomorrow. No persuasion, no development bonanza can move us from our stated position,” he said.
Taking issue with the state government on the matter of the simultaneous processes for the GTA election and the proceedings of the land verification committee, Mr Gurung said there was no such clause in the GTA agreement. “It is not right to claim that elections are to be held as per the agreement before the land issue is settled. This is unacceptable to us. Besides, it goes against the letter and spirit of the GTA agreement,” he said.
Anti-GJMM parties hope GJMM will give in
statesman news service
SILIGURI, 23 MARCH: As the GJMM delegation led by the party president, Mr Bimal Gurung has arrived in Kolkata to have talks with the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee to end the GTA logjam the anti-GJMM parties based in the Hills termed GJMM land-intransigence as a piece of drama staged calculatingly to deceive the common people.
Affirming that the state government and the GJMM have gone into ‘a tacit, mutually agreed understanding’, the All India Gorkha League president, Mrs Bharati Tamang said the land-inflexibility on the part of the GJMM was nothing better than a stratagem to vaunt its sincerity. “We are convinced that the land- intractability would end tomorrow. Mr Gurung would melt and give a positive nod to the election proposal after the meeting with the chief minister. But the question is-where the people of the Hills would go? Would they rest content with the empty avowal of the goal when things would remain stuck where they were before the GTA agreement was signed?” she asked.
Agreeing to Mrs Tamang’s view of the matter, the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) president, Mr R B Rai said the land -drama was being staged to divert the collective attention from the paramount Gorkhaland issue. “The GJMM settled for the GTA long time back. It sounds incredible that the party think-tank was caught unaware when the state government decided to carry on with the election programme for the autonomous body. The logjam would thaw tomorrow as the chief minister would announce economic largesse. The self-proclaimed champions of statehood are most likely to acquiesce supinely, consigning the emotive demand to the backseat,” he said
He further said the state government should handle the developing situation in the Terai-Dooars with utmost care. “Most of the mainstream parties keep encouraging the slander campaign being carried on by some rabid outfits. This is a dangerous trend,” he said.
SILIGURI, 23 MARCH: Sounding adamant on the contentious land issue, the GJMM chief, Mr Bimal Gurung, today said the land issue alone would figure during the discussion with chief minister Mamata Banerjee tomorrow.
“There can be only one agenda for the talks and it is the land issue. Nothing can persuade us to backtrack on this demand. We have struggled a lot and we are prepared to make more sacrifices in the future. The GTA election can be held only after the moujas are included in the autonomous body,” he said to reporters at Bagdogra airport before leaving for Kolkata.
The GJMM president said his party would not budge an inch from its avowed stance. “We will reiterate our position on the matter tomorrow. No persuasion, no development bonanza can move us from our stated position,” he said.
Taking issue with the state government on the matter of the simultaneous processes for the GTA election and the proceedings of the land verification committee, Mr Gurung said there was no such clause in the GTA agreement. “It is not right to claim that elections are to be held as per the agreement before the land issue is settled. This is unacceptable to us. Besides, it goes against the letter and spirit of the GTA agreement,” he said.
Anti-GJMM parties hope GJMM will give in
statesman news service
SILIGURI, 23 MARCH: As the GJMM delegation led by the party president, Mr Bimal Gurung has arrived in Kolkata to have talks with the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee to end the GTA logjam the anti-GJMM parties based in the Hills termed GJMM land-intransigence as a piece of drama staged calculatingly to deceive the common people.
Affirming that the state government and the GJMM have gone into ‘a tacit, mutually agreed understanding’, the All India Gorkha League president, Mrs Bharati Tamang said the land-inflexibility on the part of the GJMM was nothing better than a stratagem to vaunt its sincerity. “We are convinced that the land- intractability would end tomorrow. Mr Gurung would melt and give a positive nod to the election proposal after the meeting with the chief minister. But the question is-where the people of the Hills would go? Would they rest content with the empty avowal of the goal when things would remain stuck where they were before the GTA agreement was signed?” she asked.
Agreeing to Mrs Tamang’s view of the matter, the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) president, Mr R B Rai said the land -drama was being staged to divert the collective attention from the paramount Gorkhaland issue. “The GJMM settled for the GTA long time back. It sounds incredible that the party think-tank was caught unaware when the state government decided to carry on with the election programme for the autonomous body. The logjam would thaw tomorrow as the chief minister would announce economic largesse. The self-proclaimed champions of statehood are most likely to acquiesce supinely, consigning the emotive demand to the backseat,” he said
He further said the state government should handle the developing situation in the Terai-Dooars with utmost care. “Most of the mainstream parties keep encouraging the slander campaign being carried on by some rabid outfits. This is a dangerous trend,” he said.
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