Kolkata, Sep 3 (ANI): Gorkha
Janmukti Morcha leader Harka Bahadur Chettri has said people demanding the
creation of a separate Gorkhaland state would agitate if the Gorkhaland
Territorial Administration (GTA) Bill does not fulfill its promises.
Talking to reporters here
on Friday, Chettri said: “If some impediment is created, if the promised
autonomy is not given, if at the end of the day people feel that there is no
provision, no scope, GTA is not creating any employment, GTA is unable to
create infrastructure that it aims to create, in that case, definitely people
will take to streets because nobody will have control over people if you fail
to deliver GTA,” said Chettri.
Meanwhile, Leader of
Opposition, Surya Kanta Misra slammed the state government for passing the bill
in haste.
“You see 54 amendments on
the part of the government itself show that they have not gone through the bill
properly and even after giving 54 amendments, there is one provision that has
been passed in the house one of the amendments which is patently
unconstitutional,” he said
“The Constitution has no
provision for the district level panchayat (council) in the Darjeeling neither
the state act have it. They say the central government should agree to amend it
in the parliament, but unless it is amended, so long it is not amended, even it
is amended, only on the verbal assurance that it will get amended you cannot
pass something unconstitutional in the assembly,” he added.
A renewed demand for a
separate Gorkhaland region, which would include Darjeeling and some contiguous
areas of Jalpaiguri District, has created fresh turmoil over the past few
months.
The Gorkha population in
West Bengal is estimated to be around a million. (ANI)
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