Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) in West Bengal has rued at the impasse over the inclusion of their areas in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Bill. The Gorkhaland, Telangana issues are seriously putting pressure on the government to act. Is it time we solve the two problems once and for all. The core issue is underdevelopment. The nation is not integrated yet as one engine moving towards one goal. There are lots of disparaties among the states and within the states the political class is not able to work sincerely. Concepts of nation, ethnicity are dying nowadays fast due to the intense growth experienced during the first decade of the present century. Commenting on these aspects, state lawmaker and GJM spokesperson Harka Bahadur Chhetri said that both, the state government and the Gorkha groups, were fixated on their stands, but hoped that the deadlock would be broken in a couple of days.
“Till now our stands are unmoved. The state government is saying that first the elections will be conducted
as written in the Act, but the Act also mentions a high power committee, which will do its work and we will do our job,” said Chhetri.“But we have asked the state government to include the regions first and then conduct the elections. So right now there is a stalemate, but hopefully in a couple of days – as we have our central committees meeting – a solution will be worked out,” he added.A renewed demand for a separate Gorkhaland region, which would include Darjeeling and some contiguous areas of Jalpaiguri District, has created fresh turmoil over the past few months.The non-political tribal outfit, Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad (ABAVP) that had joined hands earlier with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), has now distanced itself from the separate state autonomous region) demand.Both outfits have been at loggerheads as the ABAVP is now agitating over the demand of GJM for the merging of 199 administrative blocks (mouzas) each from the Dooars and Terai region in the GTA. The GJM had signed a tripartite treaty with the state government of West Bengal and the central government on the issue of granting semi-autonomous territorial status to the Gorkhaland region.
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