MLA sends letter to Home Minister saying peace prevails in hills
NBS Times Correspondent
Darjeeling/Kurseong Feb 27: The
GJM’s call for a rigorous agitation got shattered today as the Calcutta High
court ordered the outfit from reframing itself out from organizing public
meetings in a bid not to disturb the ongoing ICSE and Madhyamik examinations.
While the party late in the evening announced that the series of public
meetings to be held every alternative day in March has been suspended but all
the other programmes remains unchanged. The public meetings were supposed to be
addressed by the womens wing of the party in all the three subdivisions.
“As directed by the high court we have decided to suspend the series of
public meetings as we do not want to hamper the students. All the other
programmes remain unchanged,” said Roshan Giri, the Morcha General Secretary.
The party however has called for
a series of bandhs on March 14-15 and 20-21 which has not been called off. Giri
reiterated that the government offices will remain shut from March 9 to 27. The
GJM president Bimal Gurung is also expected to address a public meeting at
Sukna.
“During the Bandhs the vehicles carrying
students will be kept out of the purview of the strike,” added Giri.
The Morcha leadership ironically
today sent a letter to the union home minister stating that the hills were
peaceful and there is not requirement of paramilitary forces in the hills at
the wake of the decision taken by both central and state governments to shift
para-military forces in the hills from jungle-mahal.
In a letter written to the home
minister Kurseong MLA Rohit Sharma said, “The three MLAs from the Darjeeling Hills along with the
Chairman, Darjeeling Municipality recently met His Excellency the Governor of
West Bengal in Kolkata recently to apprise him about the latest developments
after the Chief Minister’s Visit to Darjeeling to inaugurate a chapter of North
Bengal Festival. We are committed to the all round development of the hills
through proper functioning of GTA without any direct interference from the
state machinery on the transferred subjects. We expect the state machinery also
to honour the Tripartite Agreement. As the public representative from Kurseong
Assembly constituency, I would like to once again assert that there is complete
peace and tranquility in the area and feel, that deployment of central
paramilitary forces would be counterproductive”.
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