ENS, Kolkata, Mon Jun 25 2012: The meeting of the central committee of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), convened at Darjeeling today to decide whether the party should take part in the elections for the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), ended in a stalemate.
The party is vertically divided, admitted Harka Bahadur Chhetri, MLA and spokesman for the GJM. “The meeting ended in a stalemate. There is a sharp difference of opinion,” Chhetri said.
The party now seems to have lobbed the ball in the Centre’s court as a five-member delegation of the Morcha led by president Bimal Gurung will leave for Delhi tomorrow to meet Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. On their way back, they will meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata.
While one section of the Morcha expressed its desire to go ahead with the agitation following rejection of the Justice Shyamal Sen Committee report that allotted only five mouzas of Terai and Dooars to GTA, another section firmly rooted for election, saying development of the region came first. This section does not want the hills to be rocked by turbulence again.
Another issue that remains unresolved is whether the four GJM MLAs would attend the Assembly session. “We have been instructed not attend the session,” Chhetri added.
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