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Kanu demands a survey of areas earmarked for ‘Gorkhaland’
The Statesman
SILIGURI, Dec.1: The veteran Naxalite leader Mr Kanu Sanyal today said that the Centre should undertake a full-scale survey of the region demanded for inclusion in the proposed Gorkhaland by the agitating Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha.
“Rounds of tripartite negotiations on the Darjeeling impasse would prove an official formality unless the Centre undertook a thorough survey of the proposed separate state territory to judge whether the GJMM claim on the matter stands objective scrutiny,” Mr Sanyal said. Speaking on the matter, CPI-ML (Liberation) leader Mr Abhijit Majumdar prophesied that the Centre would not take interest in the next round of tripartite talks till the Parliamentary election ends. Mr Kanu Sanyal said that the demand for inclusion of fresh territories in the GJMM envisaged Gorkhaland should be probed by a competent agency of the Central Government. “It is a fact that influx from neighbouring Nepal has been going on unabated for years. A full fledged survey is thus the need of the hour,” he said.
“The Centre after conducting the survey should decide whether the demand for an expanded Gorkhaland with the fresh areas in Dooars and other parts of Jalpaiguri and Siliguri as demanded by the GJMM is feasible or not,” he said. He, however, reaffirmed ideological support to the separate statehood demand. “The GJMM has every right to raise the separate state demand. But it is for the Centre to weigh the feasibility factor,” he said.
On delay in the negotiation process the CPI-ML (Liberation) leader Mr Abhijit Majumder, said that there was “little possibility” for the next round of talks right now with the Parliamentary election approaching. “Besides, secretary level talks are hardly to yield a positive outcome. The secretaries both at the Central and the state levels are not decision makers. The GJMM would perhaps have to wait till the next Parliamentary election scheduled next year,” Mr Majumder added.
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