GJM to attend talks with Bengal govt on Aug 29
Team Udayavani, Aug 26, 2017, 1:01 PM IST
Darjeeling (WB) : The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) today said it will attend the August 29 meeting convened by the West Bengal government after the party received an official invitation for the talks.
“We have received an invitation last night so it has been decided that GJM will attend the meeting. A delegation of senior GJM leaders will attend the talks. It has not been decided who will be part of the delegation,” GJM MLA and senior leader Amar Singh Rai told PTI.
The development comes on a day when the indefinite strike in the hills for a separate state of Gorkhaland entered its 73rd day today. A senior state government official said, “We have sent letters to various parties including the GJM asking them to attend the talks. Other parties such as the JAP, the GNLF, the ABGL and many other parties of the hills have also been invited for talks.”
The GJM which had expressed its willingness to attend the talks had set a pre-condition that they should be officially invited. The state government has called for talks on August 29 in response to a letter form the GNLF requesting a dialogue to restore normalcy in the hills. “As we have been invited now, there is no harm in attending the talks,” a senior GJM leader said.
The GJM on Thursday wrote a letter to the West Bengal government expressing its willingness to attend the August 29 talks to resolve the Darjeeling stalemate. The letter, written by GJM leader Binay Tamang to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, had said, “No other alternative or modified step will do justice to our plight…other than creation of a separate Gorkhaland.”
Tamang’s missive was preceded by a letter of GJM chief Bimal Gurung who wrote to the state government on Wednesday night requesting a “political dialogue” on the demand for a separate state.
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