Statesman News Service
KALIMPONG, June 17. — The anti-Ghisingh Gorkha Janakranti Morcha (GJM) has pointed at the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) supremo Mr Subash Ghisingh as an anarchist.
They have accused him of treating the hill people as, “slaves”, maintained that the elections to the hill councils should be held at the earliest. GJM seniors said that in the last 17 years, the GNLF president has betrayed the people of the area by not raising the demand for a separate state in the legislative Assembly, or in any tripartite talks or in the letter to the Centre.
Mr Ghisingh’s warning opposing the election is like an anarchist suppressing the democratic rights of the masses, the GJM president, Professor Kalyan Dewan, alleged: “With his past record of betrayal, if he still speaks of setting up a sovereign Gorkhaland it is ridiculous. For him Gorkhaland is simply the means to blackmail the Centre.”
Asserting that elections needed to be held, the GJM chief said that if the state government still finds a reason to defer elections, it will alienate the people and prove that Mr Ghisingh does not want to hold elections, in keeping with the state government’s wishes.
Noting that the frequent speeches of GNLF president in public gathering justifying the need to establish a separate sovereign Gorkhaland, to make own laws, print currencies are extremely derogatory.
Prof Dewan, alleged that the deliberate indifference of the state government to these anti-national speeches of Mr Ghisingh can be looked at as a conspiracy to suppress the issue of a separate state by painting the demand of the all Indian Gorkhas for Gorkhaland with anti-national colour.
GJM has claimed that it wants the centre to understand that the people of the hills and the Dooars are only concerned about Gorkhaland within the Constitution of India.
It has also appealed to citizens to keep themselves at bay from such anti-national leader.