KPP renamed All Kamatapur People’s Party

Ujjal Bhattacharyya, EOI, 7 July 2014: The central committee of the Kamatapuri People’s Party Sunday rechristened the party as the All Kamatapuri People’s Party in a meeting held at the Shivmandir area of Siliguri. Party president Atul Roy today announced this at a press conference at the Siliguri Journalists’ Club.

Roy said the central committee of the party was dissolved and re-formed at the meeting held at the B. Ed College in Shivmandir. As many as 14 members have been selected to the single committee comprising members of Assam and North Bengal and Roy is its president.

Uttam Roy from Assam and North Bengal’s Anarul Haque have been selected as joint general secretaries while former Meghalaya cabinet minister Kopin Chandra Boro is the spokesperson formed for a term of three months. On completion of the current term a fresh board will take over, added Roy.

He said the AKPP will present a deputation to the central government within a week demanding a super specialty hospital in North Bengal, a four-lane road connecting Ghoshpukur to Salsalabari and a separate state with portions of Lower Assam and North Bengal, besides national recognition of the Kamatapuri language. Moreover, the members will demonstrate at Uttarkanya if party supporters arrested in the Bajrapara bomb blast are not released soon or the details of the CID investigation report are not revealed, declared the AKPP president.

On being questioned about former party member Nikhil Roy, the president said he had raised Nikhil as a son so it is out of question to exclude him from the party. Meanwhile, speaking to the press on Sunday, Nikhil Roy said he has eliminated Atul Roy from the party. At this, Atul Roy said he is one of the founders of the party and nobody has the power to remove.

He further said the AKPP is in favour of forming a new state comprising parts of the hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling, Kurseong, Kalimpong and Sikkim. He added the party has complete faith in the BJP government.