GJM raises question against PIL in high court

KalimNews, Kalimpong 4 September 2013: Case filed against GJM at Kolkata High Court regarding strike is without any merits and completely false. Ranjan Sharma General Secretary of Delhi unit of GJM has stated that in the PIL(Public Interest Litigation) filed challenging the ongoing protest in Darjeeling for the cause of Gorkhaland it has been wrongly alleged that the bandh is illegal, disruptive and public property has been destroyed. 

A press statement of the GJM issued by the advocate Sharma states that the destruction is state sponsored and GJM has no involvement. It states that it has also been wrongly alleged that GJM representative have been obstructing roads by resorting to coercion and intimation to the local people in order to enforce the bandh. 

On the contrary the movement in Darjeeling is peaceful and the local people have been voluntarily involved. It further states that the issue of Gorkhaland is the aspiration of the people and very close to the sentiment of Gorkhas. The allegations raised in the PIL are completely false and baseless because if the people had been intimated by GJM to get involved in the movement, the people could have easily gone to the police to file an FIR against GJM alleging force, coercion, intimation etc. which is a punishable offence as per law. 

The statement has asked several questions. Why then has not a single FIR been registered against GJM alleging force and coercion by the local people? Why has the issue gained momentum at the national level and people world wide have been supporting the issue on the social network like facebook and the internet? Why have the people come to streets in different parts of the country like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad etc. voicing the cause of Gorkhaland? Is the state administration trying to say that we dont have any right to peacefully protest in a parliamentary democracy? Why is the state administration hell bent to supress our movement and arresting people blind foldedly, without any evidence, merely on the basis of suspicion ?