GANGTOK, 25 Sept: “Concerned Society of Sikkim”, an organization with former MP Nakul Das Rai as convener and a ten-point charter was officially launched here at Press Club of Sikkim Tuesday. CSS has former MLA, Pradeep Yonzon as vice-convener.
Launching the organisation today, Mr. Rai insisted that it would be a “purely non-political” organization and will not take part in any electoral process.
Stating that there were many more issues of significance facing Sikkim, Mr. Rai said that to begin with, CSS would be focusing on 10 specific issues related to the rights of the Sikkimese people.
He informed that the organization was trying to bring former MPs, MLAs, bureaucrats and other concerned people of the society onto a common platform to speak about the rights of the people. “Good people should come forward to speak on social issues and lead the society on a productive and good path otherwise vested interests lead the society on the wrong path,” he said.
CSS vice-convener, Mr Yonzon in turn said that many people had suggested that they open a political party, but they decided on a non-political organization to create awareness among the people on their rights and other issues. He mentioned that the organization would work as a pressure group to address the state’s issues.
The 10-point charter begins with the organisation’s condemnation of the “color, flavor and taste of democracy as practiced by the ruling government” and goes on to claim that the law & order situation has deteriorated, Old Laws ignored and diluted and environment and ecology devastated.
The organization is also worried by influx and believes that situations like being encountered in Assam and other Northeastern States could be encountered in Sikkim in the near future and plans to build consensus on “creation of a similar mechanism of introducing Inner Line Permit [ILP] systems as in practiced in majority of North-Eastern Region”.
