Monday, July 25, 2011

GTA pact fails to please AAGSU

GANGTOK, 24 July: The All Assam Gorkha Students’ Union (AAGSU) has contested the claim that the tripartite agreement for formation of the Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) has secured identity for the Gorkhas for the country. The GTA, AAGSU argues, is a territorial and sociopolitical arrangement worked out for the people of Darjeeling and stresses that it should not be misconstrued as offering solutions for Gorkhas elsewhere in the country.

The central core steering committee of All Assam Gorkha Students’ Union (AAGSU), has decided to “inform the nation” that the formation of the GTA has nothing to do with the Gorkhas of Assam and the Northeast.
It stresses that the arrangement is merely about sociopolitical and economic development of Darjeeling hills.
An AAGSU press release released from its Guwahati office informs that the “huge Gorkha population” that resides in Assam and the Northeast has been left out “which is a matter for huge displeasure for those supporting the Gorkhaland movement from these regions”.
The release even accuses the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders of keeping the Gorkhas of the NE Region in “total darkness” on the clauses of the GTA even as they have been promising of packages and Special Protected Class status for Gorkhas of the entire Northeast Region.
The AAGSU has asserted that “Gorkhaland is not about Darjeeling Hills only, but about the identity and ethnicity of the Gorkhas of this entire nation.”
Expressing its dissatisfaction over the recent tri-partite agreement on setting up a Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, the Sikkim Gorkha Prajatantrik Party has also alleged that the agreement has pushed back the main issue of a separate Gorkhaland state.
At a meeting of the party held at Mamring in South Sikkim to discuss the “political situation” since the signing of the agreement, the party resolved that GTA does not give the required protection to the Gorkhas residing in India.

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