NASBO boycotts State Day

GANGTOK, 15 May: Arguing that political security was more important than economic or infrastructural development, National Sikkimese Bhutia Organization, in a press statement issued today, contended that due to “submissive and ignorant approach” of successive political leadership of the State, the people were losing their political rights and hence the organisation has decided to boycott this year’s State Day.
“It is at this point, we need a real change, a transformation,” states NASBO president Sonam Lama Kaloen in a press communiqué issued today, adding that the organization regards State Day as “Fooling Day, another occasion to fool the Sikkimese people”.
The organization plans to boycott State Day celebrations till such time that “both the Indian and Sikkimese government acknowledges and incorporates the significance of Article 371 F for all purpose, till the political rights of the Sikkimese people are adequately restored, or else, the posterity would only regard the State Day as ‘Black Day’.”
The organization believes that expenditure on State Day celebrations was an avoidable expense since, as per NASBO, “the observation only represents senseless exercise and lip service wherein the political future of our people is completely at the mess.