Pranab on Morcha’s meet
list today
NBS Times Report
The delegation on
Tuesday met the home minister giving a clear indication that the GJM-Congress
friendship has begun to bloom while the friendship with Mamata Bannerjee led
Trinamool Congress scaled down more.
Roshan Giri, the GJM
general secretary speaking over phone said that the delegation before meeting
the union home minister had prepared a documentation to prove its point as to
why Gorkhaland should not be created. “The central leadership has assured us to
look upon the matter. We have demanded tribal status to the hill people
excluding the scheduled caste community.
A demand has also been put once again to withdraw the cases registered
against the GJM leaders during the agitation period,” he said.
Giri however did not
explain why the scheduled caste community has been excluded from their wish to
acquire tribal status to rest of the hill community.
The hill party’s
appeal to withdraw cases against its leaders however comes in at the wake of
the CBI arresting 5 youth leaders in connection with the Madan Tamang murder
case recently. Tamang was the president of the ABGL. Observers however said
that the onus to withdraw cases against the leader during the agitation time
lies with the state government more than the central government.
Asked whether the
party is thinking of withdrawing its programmes at the wake of Shinde’s
assurances, Giri shot back saying that the central leadership of the party will
decide in the meeting. The GJM has called for a complete shutdown of government
offices from March 9 to 27 followed by series of bandhs from March 14-15 and
March 21-22.
The leaders in Delhi
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