BGP welcomes Sikkim Resolution on Gorkhaland, thanks Chief Minister

GANGTOK, 29 March: The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh [BGP] has welcomed the passing of the Resolution in support of Gorkhaland by the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim. [click here for copy of Resolution]
“We want to congratulate and thank Chief Minister Dr Pawan Chamling for initiating the resolution on Gorkhaland,” conveys Rev. Dr. Enos Das Pradhan, working president of the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, in a press release.
“Sikkim had earlier played a stellar role in the movement for the recognition of Nepali as a national language and its inclusion in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution. By becoming the first Chief Minister to pass a resolution on the creation of Gorkhaland, Dr Pawan Chamling has once shown again that Sikkim will not belie the hopes and expectations that Gorkhas across the country have from Dr Chamling and Sikkim,” the BGP working president adds.

The endorsing of Gorkhaland by the Sikkim Legislative Assembly, proves that the separate state demand is “just, constitutional, legal, democratic and people-centred”, the BGP stresses while further informing that the organization has asked its units in 22 states of India to take cue from Sikkim and “endeavour to get the subject of a separate state for Gorkhas raised in their respective state Assemblies”.
“Sikkim is the first State Assembly to do so,” said Dr Pradhan, adding, “the Sikkim state unit of the BGP also needs to be congratulated for their effort.” He has expressed hope that such support would be forthcoming from other states as well.