Indian Gorkhas failed by Centre and the State- GTF Home Minister Shinde assures GTF delegation to talk on Gorkhaland issue
MUKESH SHARMA
New Delhi, August 26:
The Union Home Minister
Sushil Kumar Shinde met a delegation of the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP) - Gorkhaland
Task Force (GTF) today at his residence in New Delhi. Led by GTF Chairman Rev
Dr Enos Das Pradhan, the delegation discussed the separate State issue with the
Home Minister and submitted a memorandum on the same.
At the discussion, Rev
Dr Pradhan and GTF General Secretary
Munish Tamang emphasized that the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)
do not meet the expectations of over 1 crore Indian Gorkhas. They pointed out
that the GTA was only a development agency, while the demand of the Indian Gorkhas
revolves around their National identity and political security. The Union Government
had not consulted all political parties or social organizations concerned while
settling for the GTA agreement, they said.
The delegation said
that the Indian Gorkhas has been regularly failed by the Centre and the State
and their actual problems are not being taken seriously. “As a Dalit, you will
understand marginalization. We request you to understand the issues of
deprivation of the Indian Gorkhas and take steps to give them justice,” they
told Shinde.
The Home Minister was keen
on these views and assured that he would like to discuss them more. “We will
sit down again and talk about the issues of the Gorkhas,” he told the
delegation.
Other members in the
delegation included BGP Secretary General Sukhman Moktan, Gorkha Rajya Nirman
Morcha (GRNM) President Dawa Pakhrin and GTF National Coordinator R Moktan.
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