GORKHALAND, BODOLAND LEADERS THREATEN AGITATION
Protagonists
of Gorkhaland and Bodoland on 30th July,2013,Tuesday threatened to
intensify their agitations for statehood stating that by creating Telanagana
the Centre cannot deny them their ‘old and justified’ demands.Gorkha Janmukti
Morcha (GJM) general secretary Roshan Giri and Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) MP
Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary said they have no option but to intensify their
movements for separate states to be carved out of West Bengal and Assam
respectively“After Telangana, the central government will now have to give us
Gorkhaland. They cannot deny our old and justified demand. We will intensify
our agitation,” Mr. Giri told .The GJM leader said Darjeeling hills and its
adjoining areas were never part of West Bengal and therefore there was no
reason ‘to forcefully keep us with West Bengal.’“We do not want to remain with
West Bengal. It is a mystery how we were attached with West Bengal. We want
Gorkhaland,” Mr. Giri said.
The GJM
has threatened that the ongoing three-day bandh, which entered the second day
on Tuesday, would be converted into an indefinite one to press for Gorkhaland
in case statehood was conferred on Telangana.BPF Lok Sabha member Bwiswmuthiary
said they have called a public rally in Kokrajhar, Assam, on August 5, to renew
their demand for separate Bodoland.“Demand for Bodoland is several decades old.
When the Centre can give Telangana, why not Bodoland. We will soon meet Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister
Sushilkumar Shinde to press our demand,” he told .The UPA on Tuesday unanimously
endorsed creation of Telangana state.
Prof. John Kurakar
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