Congress demand three tier panchayat polls in Darjeeling
Kalimpong,January
9, 2017
At
a time when state government is focusing to conduct two tier panchayat
elections nearly after a decade time the demand of conducting three tier elections
is still on high in Darjeeling Hills.
Morcha
the ruling party in Darjeeling has been demanding three tier panchayat
elections but recently in Darjeeling GJM supremo Bimal Gurung aid even if the Bengal
government went ahead with two-tier panchayat elections despite its opposition,
the party would take part in them.
Today too the Darjeeling District congress committee
demanded a three tier panchayat elections in Hills. The statement came from the
Darjeeling District Congress coordinator Dilip Pradhan said “ We want a three
tier panchayat elections in Darjeeling area. He said what is the problems when
Central, State government and the GJMM have signed the GTA agreement where they
have all agreed to conduct three tier panchayat in the Act. He said it’s their responsibility
to conduct the election as they need to amend the constitution. He said we want
municipal elections to happen soon as all hill municipality term have finished
and now are been run by state appointed administration.
A congress party meet was today organized in Kalimpong
where Md Nurul Huda ,Standing MLA of congress party from Assam was present . In
his presence two committees, district campaign committee which will campaign
against the decision of demonetization and District Implementing committee was
formed which will implement the central program of Congress party in the
District.
Elections to gram panchayats were last
held in the hills in 2000. For the three-tier panchayat elections, a
constitutional amendment is needed. This is because in 1993, Article 243M was
amended to pave way for a two-tier panchayat system for the area which was then
under the jurisdiction of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. However, the
constitutional amendment has not yet come through.
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