Guwahati: People’s Joint Action Committee of Bodoland Movement (PJACBM) spearheaded by All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) has extended its support to Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) leading the Gorkhaland movement in Darjeeling Hills and condemned the police action to ‘gag’ the voice of Gorkha people aspiring for a Gorkhaland state.
In a statement issued here on Saturday the PJACBM which has been agitating for a separate Bodoland state to be carved out of present geographical boundary of Assam, said, “The outburst of tension in Darjeeling area is nothing but an unwarranted outcome of the autocratic rule of the Bengal government as well as Government of India’s utter negligence towards the problem.”
“We condemn the unprovoked atrocious act on the part of the Bengal police and their indiscriminate torture on the unarmed civilians in the streets of Darjeeling. Recovery of the so-called lethal weapons from the office of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) as shown in the media footage is nothing but a plant of Bengal police.The torching of the vehicles of the media house is a part of conspiracy hatched by Bengal police to blame the GJM. The Bengal police with their repressive mentality are working as the burglars by barging into the office of the GJM, a registered political party,’’ the organisation stated.
“As the member of the National Federation for New States (NFNS) we hereby express our support and solidarity towards the Gorkha people’s movement for Gorkhaland. At the same time we urge the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha leadership to lead the movement through democratic, peaceful and non-violent means. We hereby appeal both the agitating leadership and the Bengal administration to keep themselves restraint from violence and maintain peace in the area. We also urge Government of India’s immediate intervention into the matter and concede Gorkha people’s demand for a Gorkhaland for restoring permanent peace in the region,” it stated.
The PJACBM further stated that movements in demand for creating separate state had been active in different parts of India just after the previous UPA government had created Telangana state in 2009. “Telangana state was created in 2014 but the Government of India hadsmaintained deliberate indifference and discrimination towards people’s aspirations for separate state in other parts of the country. In order to establish their historical prerogative, to ensure their political and land right, to assert their distinct identity with language and culture and also to eradicate the regional disparity of socio-economic development the demand for creating Bodoland, Gorkhaland, Vidarbh, Bundelkhand, Twipraland, Purbanchal, Harid Pradesh etc., started some considerable decades back and are still restive. Their demands are historically and constitutionally legitimate, correct and justified. But the Government of India is apathetic towards the movement and is unwilling to resolve the problem,” the organisation said.
