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‘GJMM is a frustrated lot’

Statesman News Service

SILIGURI, Nov. 24: The CPI-M Darjeeling district leadership today said that the GJMM was losing ground in the Darjeeling hills and in a fit of frustration its leadership was indulging in wild ramblings against the CPI-M and the state government.

Reacting to the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung’s allegation in Kuseong yesterday that the state urban development minister and a senior CPI-M leader Mr Asok Bhattacharya had been engineering infiltration from across Bangladesh to bring about a demographic change in the Terai and the Dooars region, Mr Bhattacharya said that the GJMM leadership was stooping low. “The fact is that the agitating outfit has been losing public support due to its prolonged anti-people political and economic programmes. The GJMM leadership is now a frustrated lot,” Mr Bhattacharya said.

It may be mentioned here that Mr Gurung alleged yesterday while addressing a meeting in Kurseong that the state government at the behest of the state urban development minister had been actively engineering infiltration from Bangladesh to transform the prevailing demographic order in the Teari and the Dooars regions in favour of a particular community. “Besides, the state government has been propping up radical Bengali organisations like Aamra Bangali and Jana Chetana Mancha to thwart the people’s movement in the Darjeeling hills,” he charged.

Moving a step further, the CPI-M state committee member Mr Jibesh Sarkar said that the GJMM supremo’s allegation against the state minister amounted to wild ramblings. “Development process has come to a halt in the hills because of the protracted non-cooperation movement being carried on by the GJMM. Dissenting opinion is being brutally suppressed. People are getting disillusioned and incensed by the outfit’s fascist activities,” he said.

The CPI-M leader further said that the outburst by Mr Gurung had manifested a deepening sense of political frustration on the part of GJMM leadership.

© 2008 The Gorkhaland Chronicle.