Sanyog Tamang, the son of slain hill leader Madan Tamang and Bharati
Tamang, the immediate past president of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha
League, today questioned the decision by the party to remove his mother
from her post.
On October 8, the ABGL had held a central
committee meeting and announced that Bharati and three other leaders of
the party had been suspended from their posts as they had violated a
resolution adopted by the party. As per the resolution, the ABGL had to
stay away from the second round of bipartite talks between hill parties
and the Bengal government at Uttarkanya here on September 12.
Pratap
Khati, the general secretary of the ABGL, had said the party had
resolved not to take part in the talks but Bharati and three others had
attended it.
Bharati was suspended for three
months, "keeping in mind the contribution of late Madan Tamang to the
Gorkhaland cause and the party".
Today,
Sanyog, who had joined Trinamul earlier, said: "The ABGL is a
president-based party and the general secretary has no authority to
remove the president from the post. Most leaders of the central
committee had attended the bipartite talks as an invitation had come to
the ABGL from the chief minister."
"I belong to another party but
the ABGL was formed by my father. Considering the manner in which she
was removed from the post, I felt it is necessary to protest and apprise
people of the wrong decision made by a few leaders of the party," said
Sanyog.
Reacting to Sanyog's statement, Khati said: "He is from a
different party and does not have a moral right to speak about the
internal affairs of the ABGL. We suspect he had been asked by some
Trinamul leaders to articulate his reaction so that pressure can be
mounted on."
Courtesy: The Telegraph
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