These power hungry people masquerading as leaders of the hill people and their goondas are supposed to provide leadership to the proposed new seperate state. We should beware of such elements before they grow big.

The hill people certainly deserve better than such criminals and lumpens.

Talking about ST, the outsiders gurkhas have come here, settled here, defiled the local indegenious culture, and also usurped the ST benefits.

However, reports such as the following in the Telegraph seem to indicate all is definitely not well with GJM and its cadres that are into intimidation & harrassment:

Please read:

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Power, water off for Wattar
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Siliguri, July 21: CPM leaders in the Darjeeling hills continue to be at the receiving end of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s anger, K.B. Wattar from Bijanbari being the latest in the line of fire.

Morcha supporters have been demonstrating in front of Wattar’s house since yesterday, demanding that he either quit the CPM, which is against a separate state, or leave the hills.

“The Morcha harps on democracy, but at the same time its members intimidate our leaders in the hills,” Bengal urban development minister and CPM MLA Asok Bhattacharya said here today.

“Hundreds of Morcha supporters have confined Wattar and his family members to the house and have disconnected water and cable TV lines. They have threatened the family with social boycott and have demanded that Wattar leave the hills if he cannot resign from the CPM,” the minister said.

Earlier, CPM leaders like the party district secretary S.P. Lepcha, who lives in a garden near Darjeeling town, and Tara Sundas from Kalimpong had to face the brunt of Morcha protests. Their houses had been gheraoed and they were told to leave the CPM.

Morcha leaders had then admitted that the incidents had taken place, but branded them “people’s protests, which had nothing to do with the hill party”.

Wattar, a CPM district secretariat member and president of the party’s farmers’ front, Paschimbanga Pradeshik Krishak Sabha, said over the phone that around 300 Nari Morcha supporters surrounded his house at 11am yesterday. “They demanded that I quit the party. Water and cable connections to my house were snapped. The demonstration continued till 2pm.”

This morning, too, Morcha supporters allegedly camped in front of the house. “None of them entered my residence, but intercepted every person who came in, taking note of their identity and the purpose of visiting me or my family. We have to bring water from the roadside taps,” Wattar alleged.

According to CPM insiders, a zonal committee meeting of the party convened at Wattar’s house a couple of days ago, had angered the Morcha.

Darjeeling superintendent of police Rahul Srivastava said there has been no complaints from Wattar. “He told me in the evening that everything had returned to normal, including the water supply,” said the police chief.

Roshan Giri, general secretary of the Morcha, denied that any such incident had taken place. “This is just an allegation,” he said.

Let us not oppose for the sake of opposing.

BG has done well so far I guess.

Jai Gorkhaland!!

The scars of the violence of purpetuated by the the GNLF cadres are still in the memory and now the GJM is adopting the same methods. A large number of people here do not support the GJM. But they are keeping silent…the GJM dictum of each house having to send one representative to its meetings and procession does not go well with the people and there is a silent resentment building up.

The hill people are simple at heart and non-violent. But we cherish our individual freedom.

Alternatives would come up.

These henchmen benefitted under Subhas Ghesing who lorded over the DGHC and made personal fortunes. They have now broken away from Ghesing over their personal ambitions. Simply by changing the name to GJM does not absolve them of the crimes of financial improprity committed by them under the twenty year misrule of Ghesing, and most important the betrayal of the people by these elements.

There should be white paper on the financial dealings of the DGHC and all those who made ffortunes in the name of the hill people should be brought to justice. As for the seperate state demand, that is our right which cannot be taken away. But we do not want uneducated, criminal, henchmen to have anything to do with it. We want educated leadership with clean record.

aap log kya Indian nepali ho?? jaise ki Indian Gorkha???

well I have full sympathy to your demands like I’m also sympathaized to GL ( Siliguri-dooars chod ke).Carry on brother.we are all behind you.
By the way here topics is “Tribal body opposes new state” means Dooars& tarai ADHIBASIS are not at all interested to join with JGM’s so called GL, this tarai and dooars is situated in Jalpaiguri and Kuchbihar district of west bengal, India not in Nepal. Have you mix up this tarai area with your Nepal tarai where madhesis stay???

Nepla ka Madhesio hum ee aap logo pe naaj hain….hum bihari aur UP bhaiyo ka full support hain aap logo ke liye…aap log ladiye wo maoist se aur chin liziye aapna hauk…..AAk din aapna sanpa pura hoga….apna Madhesi State for we madhesis….

from where you got this news that BG has made pregnent two innocent girls??any source??

The demand for the separate state of the people of the hills has to be seen in the context of the social, cultural, economic aspirations of the region which after more than half a century of independence of the country is still without proper infrastucture, medical facilities, institutions of higher education. The region lacks in even the basic facilities including drinking water. There are no job opportunities for the youth, no economic development in the region. All these factors point to a total neglect of the hill region. The demand for the separate state has therefore to be seen in the proper perspective. The entity of state is essentially a unit of administration. The primary task of administration is to address the issues of the people and take appropriate steps for solving the problems of the people. The demand for the separate state by the people of the hills is only a logical culmination of the, unaddressed legitimate aspirations of the people in a democracy.

The state govt should realize these facts and adopt a positive approach in the matter. Similarly the issue needs to be handled with care and maturity by the hill people. It need not become a gurkha v/s bengali issue, which it seems from the various comments in the blogs, etc.

The situation calls for a sober, educated, liberal leadership from the hills, representing the various tribes and people of the region, which should be able to articulate these legitimate aspirations of the people and lead the hills towards peace, progress and prosperity. The propoganda of hatred, ill-will and communal color needs to be put to end at once. Calling the new state as DARJEELING would certainly address the feeling of gorkha domination prevailing among the indegenious tribes of the hills. The indefinite bandhs would only increase the economic hardship of the people of the hills. Besides hurting the tourism economy of the region, it should be realized that a large population of the hills earn their livelihood on daily basis, who are the worst hit by such bandhs.

As a democratic country we all have right to speak …. it doeas not mean everyone will support Gorkhaland….but after living for last 20 years in Ghisings rule you peoples have lost the faith in democracy….ghising has gone but dont try to keep his rule….give chance peoples to share their ideas…..otherwise you will very soon enter into Bimal’s era for next 20 years as a Newly form DGHC

The recent action of the GJM of asking all visitors to leave the hills is most condemnable and needs to be rejected by the hill people. This highly irresponsible apart from making us vulnerable in the plains has dealt a serious blow to the tourism industry, which is the backbone of the economy of the hills.

The most important point to be noted is that we have serious reservations to the name ‘gorhaland’ for the seperate state. The people of the hills are not only gorhkas but include the indegenious tribes of lepchas, bhutias, etc. The indegenious tribes of lepchas, bhutias, etc., are basically buddhists and some are christians and are simple peace loving people not believing in violence. A case in point is the non-violent struggle which is being carried out by the lepchas for the sacred ‘ djongu’ which would be submerged in the upcoming power project.

The present agitation is led by the gorkhas who follow the Hindu relogion. The gorkhas actually are outsiders and migrants from nepal who have come and settled in the hills here and have upstaged the indegenious local tribes. But being numerically strong these gorkhas try to dominate the local tribes. A large population of the hills including the indegenious tribes as well as considerable section of the gorkha do not support the leaderships of the GJM or the GNLF. But they do not speak out for fear of reprisals and violence by the militant cadres of the GNLF and the GJM. It may be pointed out that when the DGHC was formed in 1988, tribes like the Lepchas and the Bhutias were neglected, and the GNLF monpolised power in the hands of the gorkhas.

The people of the hills need sober, educated and wise leadership to press for our demand for statehood. We do not want to taken for a ride by people who are blinded by personal interests and have with no vision and positive agenda for the economic development of the hill people. It has nothing got to do with the interests of the people of the hills.

There is need for the educated and selfless leaders to take up the issue of seperate statehood for the hills and not let it be hijacked by power hungry politicians to further their self interests. The agitation needs to conducted in a proper manner and should not be turned into a hill versus plains issue. Tourism industry is a major backbone of the hill economy and the present action of GJM would only hurt the fragile economics of the hills and increase the hardships of the common people.

The seperate state should be called DARJEELING, which would convey a broader identity to the people of the hills and not Gorkhaland, which has narrow communal overtones and stands for just one section of the population.

V.Lepcha.