GJM keen on tripartite talks to begin soon
Posted by barunroy on July 25, 2008
FROM SIKKIM EXPRESS
DARJEELING, July 23: With the UPA government winning the trust vote, the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) has expressed hope that the process for beginning the tripartite talks between the Centre, West Bengal government and the GJM on the issue of separate statehood of Gorkhaland will begin soon.
The GJM leader, Bimal Gurung in a letter to the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other Central leaders has asked the UPA Government to seriously take up the issue of Gorkhaland and initiate a tripartite talk at the earliest.
Mr. Gurung has also congratulated the UPA leaders on winning the trust vote yesterday in the Lok Sabha. “Taking into consideration the fact that the crisis in the Centre is over, we have written to the UPA leaders reiterating our demands for Gorkhaland,” GJM general secretary, Roshan Giri said here today.
The GJM president, in the letter, has asked the UPA government to take the initiative to organise the tripartite talks and consider the formation of a separate state of Gorkhaland by bringing together the Darjeeling Hills and the Dooars region, Mr. Giri said.
