The GNLF president today asked Bimal Gurung, without naming him, to
concentrate on the statehood agitation and stop "listening to everyone"
and iterated that his party no longer demanded the Sixth Schedule status
for the hills.
Without taking the name of the GNLF, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
president had said yesterday: "I am hearing that a Sixth Schedule khichdi is being cooked by the Bengal government to bring about disunity."
In a reply to Gurung's barb, the GNLF president
Mann Ghisingh, told a rally in Darjeeling today: "We are hearing a lot
of things. I would request you to stop listening to everyone. We are no
longer interested in the Sixth Schedule status and our demand now is
only Gorkhaland."
Ghisingh was addressing GNLF workers who took out a march from Dali to Clubside in Darjeeling.
Asking Gurung to remain "guarded" against various conspiracies,
Ghisingh called upon the Morcha leadership to "concentrate" on the large
goal. "We must all concentrate on the larger goal. I would also suggest
that the all-party co-ordination committee (formed to pursue the
Gorkhaland demand" to start working. Things are lingering. Is the delay
in holding meetings and formulating a strategy a ploy to derail this
all-party initiative," said Ghisingh.
In another development, Trinamul today faced a major jolt with the
party's working president in the hills, N.B. Khawash, and
vice-presidents, Parishma Giri and Mohan Lama, resigning. "We have
resigned from Trinamul considering the aspirations of people and in
support of the mass movement. We are hopeful that the people's
aspiration will not be let down this time," said Khawash.
Today, a joint procession by the Morcha, CPRM and Gorkhaland Rajya
Nirman Morcha was organised in Darjeeling, followed by a public meeting
at Chowk Bazar in the town.
Dawa Pakhrin, the president of the GRNM, said: "Bengal is tired. We
are getting positive messages from the Centre and the people's movement
will not be wasted this time."(TT)
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