Gorkha Morcha’s green flag gets Revolutionary Marxist’s red star
Posted by barunroy on June 14, 2008
Kolkata, June 13: The Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM), a breakaway group of the ruling CPM, has now joined hands with the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), which has demanded a separate state of Gorkhaland. About 500 supporters of the party reached Kolkata on Thursday night to meet the state law minister and Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi. The supporters, coming from Mirik, Sonada, Kurseong, Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Ghoom and other remote areas of the Darjeeling district, took out a rally in Kolkata on Thursday. Some Naxalite groups also participated in the rally. It started from Subodh Mullick Square and ended at Esplanade.
“We will not accept anything other than a separate state for Gorkhas. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s government should start thinking about our demand,” said Arun Ghatani, secretary of CPRM. He added: “For the sake of Gorkhaland, we are ready to join hands with GJM’s Bimal Gurung.” But in doing so, the party will resort to democratic ways and not adopt “violent methods” as chosen by the GJM.
The supporters of CPRM spent the entire day meeting bureaucrats and members of the Human Rights Commission to plead for the formation of Gorkhaland. A 20-member team, headed by the supporters of the Democratic Revolutionary Youth Front and Democratic Revolutionary Nari Sangha (the student and women’s wing of the party respectively) met the Governor at Raj Bhavan.
“The Governor listened to us but has not supported our stand,” said Sanjeela Ghisingh, the leader of Democratic Revolutionary Nari Morcha. The members also met Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty, and law minister Rabilal Moitra at Writers’ Buildings. They demanded adequate compensation for those killed in the hills during the Gorkhaland movement in 1980s. [Indian Express]
“The victims of Singur and Nandigram were compensated. Why the government does not think about those martyrs who had lost their lives for the cause of Gorkhaland?” Ghatani asked. [Indian Express]
June 14, 2008 at 5:58 pm
CPRM… Thank you… you are taking the issues where it really matters.. keep up the good work
June 18, 2008 at 9:55 am
CPRM has a huge role to play in the formation of Gorkhaland which will be beneficial not only to the nepali speaking population of Darjeeling but also to the bengali as well as the various other ethnic groups living there. In making the leap by leaving the CPIM behind in their pool of stagnancy the CPRM will go down in history as the ones who have truly contributed in making this dream come true. Without delay the party should pursue in winning the hearts and minds of the CPM cadres who are out there as this is the time and start launching massive campaigns to tell the world what this movement is all about. Its about time that every individual from Darjeeling get an identification and a place in Indian society.
October 10, 2008 at 7:02 pm
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