Centre’s stand on assam upsets gjmm

SNS, Siliguri, 26 August: The embarrassment for GJMM has deepened further as the Centre has asked those in Assam demanding separate states for negotiations in Delhi, while keeping the protagonists of the call for Gorkhaland at bay. It is learnt that the tripartite meetings involving the Centre, the Assam government and the leaders of the statehood movements in the state would be held in the first week of September.

But despite constant prodding from the GJMM and the newly formed Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee for talks, the Centre has chosen to keep them out in the cold.   

The Union home ministry is said to have asked Bodo People’s Front, Joint Action Committee for Autonomous State for Karbi Anglong and Cooch-Rajbanshi Students’ Union for Kamtapur state to go to New Delhi at the initiative of the Assam chief minister, Mr Tarun Gogoi. 

“This is an instance of double standards,” said GJMM leader and GJAC coordinator Mr Raju Pradhan, adding that the shadow of the West Bengal chief minister is discernible in the Centre having decided to keep them out in the cold.

Echoing the resentment, GJAC chairperson Mr Enos Das Pradhan said it is clear that the UPA is unwilling to anger Miss Mamata Banerjee, with an eye fixed on the electoral permutations and combinations in the post-2014 Lok Sabha poll scenario. “But such machinations would not solve things here,” he warned.

The opinion of former urban development minister and senior CPI-M leader Mr Asok Bhattacharya is the same. “Mamata Banerjee wants to keep the Darjeeling tangle alive to use to the hilt the anti-Gorkhaland sentiment of most Bengalis in the next Lok Sabha elections,” he said.  

(Republished- Source & Courtesy: http://www.thestatesman.net/news/12141-centre-s-stand-on-assam-upsets-gjmm.html)