SIBLAC thanks Chamling for scrapping Kabi-Longstok project and Assembly resolution on Karmapa to Sikkim

APPEALS TO HIM TO RECONSIDER AND REEVALUATE TASHIDING HYDEL PROJECT AS WELL

GANGTOK, 02 July: The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee, at a meeting held on Tuesday, resolved to express gratitude towards Chief Minister Pawan Chamling putting on record in the Legislative Assembly that the beautification project planned for the Kabi Longstok sacred grove has been scrapped and for having passed a resolution in the Assembly requesting the Centre to allow Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje to Sikkim.

A SIBLAC press release issued by its general secretary Pem Tshering Lepcha informs that the meeting, chaired by SIBLAC convener Tseten Tashi Bhutia, was also attended by representatives from the Bhutia Lepcha Protection Force, Save Kabi-Longtsok Committee and members from Monks of Sikkim, including community members from all four district of the State.

Apart from registering gratitude towards the CM, the meeting, after deliberating on the verdict passed by the High Court on the petition challenging the Tashiding HEP, resolved to appeal to the Chief Minister to “re-evaluate and check whether he is not misguided or kept in dark by the state administration or the project proponent” about the project.

The meeting agreed that the CM should be conscious of the fact that “no meaningful performance of Tashiding Bhum-chu ritual is possible if river Rathong Chu is desecrated or defiled”.

The meeting concluded with an expression of congratulations for Mr. Chamling and his team for their fifth term in government and extended good wishes to all the new elected members of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly.