Don't divide Gorkhas in terms of Religion-Rev Dr.Enos Das Pradhan
Mukesh Sharma
Kalimpong,1st Oct
National
Chairman of Bhartiya Gorkha Parisangh
Rev Dr.Enos Das Pradhan has today
alleged that the centre and state government is playing a divide and
rule policy in darjeeling hills on the basis of religion.In this pretext
he added that The DM or SDO or BDO office is not issuing Gorkha
Certificate to the gorkhas who follow christian religion .He added that
earlier the hills lepcha community was denied the same after which the
state government played a game to create a differences between the two
community who lived as a branches of a same tree.Further he said that
denying a certificate just in terms of religion in this country is not
good. India is a secular country but this type of move to divide a
community on the basis of religion can be dangerous he added .Meanwhile
when asked to kalimpong SDO office about this issue Kalimpong DMDC has
denied that his office grants Gorkha certificate not on basis of
religion but on the basis of caste. Kalimpong,1st Oct
Dr.Pradhan said that The Anthropological Survey of India
has issued a clarification on 13th
September 2004 regarding actual determination as to who is GORKHA, the
copy of which has been made public by the Government of West Bengal,
Home Department vide their memo. no. 3519(18)-P., dated 12th July 2006.
he added that objectionable issues have emerged from this clarification
and he was surprised that so-called
intellectuals of our community have not raised any voice against this
'divide and rule" policy of the state and the central government.
"Gorkhas belonged only to both Hindu and Buddhist fold and also
admixture of both the religions" Describing a community in terms of
religion is divisive move as religion has nothing to do with our socioeconomic identity. Therefore he have encourage all Gorkhas belonging to
Christian faith to raise their voice against this discriminatory
clarification and demand immediate delinking of religion in the
determination of the community.
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