‘GJMM must prove pro-Gorkhaland credentials by quitting GTA’

SNS, 27 September 2013: Taking today’s development of the GJMM having elected a new chief executive for the GTA in line with the state-government-fixed stricture with a pinch of salt, the leaders of the Hill-based Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) said the GJMM must prove its pro-Gorkhaland credentials by quitting the GTA in the coming days. According to them, today’s development would help the GJMM to survive in the Hill politics. But they are skeptical whether it would push the cause of Gorkhaland further.  
The CPRM president, Mr R B Rai, who is also secretary of the Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee (GJAC), said: “The decision to elect a new GTA chief would stand the GJMM in good stead. But we are waiting for the GJMM to adopt the resolution demanding a separate state from the GTA platform in tune with the party’s commitment.”   
Mr Rai also pointed out that the GJMM leadership had promised to the GJAC that the party would elect a new GTA chief executive just to bide time for scarping it altogether by taking a resolution demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland. “They said they would adopt the resolution on the basis of the particular clause in the GTA agreement where it is said the pact is being signed keeping on record the demand for Gorkhaland,” he added. 
Mr Rai said they would discuss the matter threadbare at a meeting scheduled on 30 September. “Presently I am working as the GJAC secretary. It was decided that I would become the conglomerate’s president in case Mr Bimal Gurung quits that day,” he said. He further warned that the Hill would relapse back into a state of turmoil if the Centre does not call the tripartite meeting soon. 
However, another non-GJMM party, All India Gorkha League (AIGL) that is not a constituent of the conglomerate now, said the GJMM, bereft of strength to continue with the statehood movement, has capitulated before the bullying state government. 
“It is to stop the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee from foisting an administrator over the GTA,” said the AIGL vice president, Mr Laxman Pradhan. He also said even if the GTA members adopt a Gorkhaland resolution it would hardly have any perceptible impact as far as the furtherance of the statehood cause is concerned. 
A top government official said: “The GJMM would tactically cling to the GTA upto 2014, keeping eyes trained on the next general elections and its results.”