Alipurduar: The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad has written to the chief minister, asking him not to give permission to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to hold any public meeting in the Dooars.
The Adivasi outfit said it was determined to keep off the Morcha, based in the Darjeeling hills, from the region.
Birsha Tirki, the president of the state committee of the Parishad, said over the phone from Calcutta: “At 4pm today, we submitted the letter to the chief minister through the home secretary. We have requested Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee not to give permission to the Morcha to organise any public meeting in the Dooars. If they do, we will restrain them, which can trigger violence.”
Tirki said he expected the letter to reach Bhattacharjee before his meeting with the Morcha leaders in Writers’ Buildings started. He added that the Parishad was not against Morcha meetings.
“It is their democratic right to hold rallies and bring out processions. But we are against violence and the attempt of the hill party to include the Dooars in Gorkhaland, the new state that the outfit wants. Earlier, we had written to the chief secretary and the home secretary appealing to them to tell the Morcha to restrict its movement to the hills.”
“Yesterday, I had talked to B.L. Meena, the divisional commissioner of Jalpaiguri, and he told me that the administration would sit with us soon to discuss the issue. It would have been better if the chief minister had called us today to Writers.”
Normality returned to Banarhat, Malbazar and Nagrakata, the three areas that were witness to clashes last week. Shops, which had been shut for the past four days, opened shutters today. Attendance in schools and offices was high and there were public vehicles on the road.
Source: The Telegraph
The Adivasi outfit said it was determined to keep off the Morcha, based in the Darjeeling hills, from the region.
Birsha Tirki, the president of the state committee of the Parishad, said over the phone from Calcutta: “At 4pm today, we submitted the letter to the chief minister through the home secretary. We have requested Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee not to give permission to the Morcha to organise any public meeting in the Dooars. If they do, we will restrain them, which can trigger violence.”
Tirki said he expected the letter to reach Bhattacharjee before his meeting with the Morcha leaders in Writers’ Buildings started. He added that the Parishad was not against Morcha meetings.
“It is their democratic right to hold rallies and bring out processions. But we are against violence and the attempt of the hill party to include the Dooars in Gorkhaland, the new state that the outfit wants. Earlier, we had written to the chief secretary and the home secretary appealing to them to tell the Morcha to restrict its movement to the hills.”
“Yesterday, I had talked to B.L. Meena, the divisional commissioner of Jalpaiguri, and he told me that the administration would sit with us soon to discuss the issue. It would have been better if the chief minister had called us today to Writers.”
Normality returned to Banarhat, Malbazar and Nagrakata, the three areas that were witness to clashes last week. Shops, which had been shut for the past four days, opened shutters today. Attendance in schools and offices was high and there were public vehicles on the road.
Source: The Telegraph
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