Gurung calls Roshan for urgent meet, GJMM may dissolve GTA

SNS, Siliguri, 11 August 2013: The Gorkha JanMukti Morcha leadership and elected members of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration would hold a meeting tomorrow in response to the state government’s message for selecting chief executive of the GTA. 
Party sources said, the GJMM would adopt a resolution whether the party should agree with the state government’s proposal for selection of a member of the GTA for the post of chief executive of the Hill setup when the chief minister gave a three-day ultimatum for calling off the bandh and decided to curb its statehood movement. A senior GJMM leader said the party would decide on the fate of the GTA tomorrow and party leadership may ask all GTA members to resign. 
Notably, the GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung called on his party general secretary Mr Roshan Giri and other important leaders, who were camping in Delhi to manage assurance from the Central government for a separate state of Gorkhaland, to attend an urgent meeting to be held tomorrow. 
However, the GJMM leadership is in dilemma over the GTA’s fate and whether the party should dissolve the GTA at present to continue its agitation for statehood at present. 
A section of leadership does not want to dissolve the GTA but a group of senior GJMM leaders want to select the deputy chief executive Mr Ramesh Alley as chief executive in appropriate time.  
Significantly, the GJMM called all political party meeting tomorrow to decide on the preset movement for statehood when a section on anti-GJMM political parties like CPRM has extended support to Mocha’s statehood movement. 
It may be noted that anti-GJMM political parties and organisations in the Hills, except the GNLF, have been demanding separate statehood and leaders who were protesting against an interim setup GTA, an alternative to separate state, want to drop the GTA.  
“The party leadership may ask all members to resign from the GTA to teach the state government a lesson when the chief minister is plotting to appoint her nominated member of the body,” he said. 
“The decision would be taken tomorrow to offer a challenge to the CM how she can run the GTA with her nominated members and a few government officials,” he added. 
Notably, it was learnt the state might appoint one of the nominated members of the GTA Mr Durga Khaler if the GJMM does not propose name of the deputy chief executive Mr Alley as chief executive to fill in the vacancy after resignation of Mr Bimal Gurung as chief of the GTA.  
Notably, Mr Durga Kharel and other members have already left their home after alleged threats and fearing attacks from the GJMM.