The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad said today it would continue the campaigns against the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in the Terai and the Dooars despite an assurance by the chief minister that the government would not sit idle if violence recurred in the region.
Some leaders of the Parishad, which is at loggerheads with the Morcha following the hill outfit’s Dooars Chalo movement early this month to consolidate its support base in the plains, had met Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Writers’ Buildings yesterday.
The Morcha had launched the campaign to include the Dooars in Gorkhaland, a separate state the party is demanding.
“We have made it clear to the government that we will not watch silently if the Morcha makes attempts to organise any programmes to amass support for the separate state,” said Birsa Tirkey, the state president of the Parishad.
“Our members have been instructed to renew their anti-Morcha campaign in the form of rallies, meetings and door-to-door visits to make people aware of the consequences of the division of state. We will respect law while holding such programmes,” he added.
Tirkey said people in the Dooars were not concerned over the Morcha’s activities in the hills. “But we suspect that they are inducting tribal youths into Gorkhaland Personnel only to attack and repress us. We will discourage our youths from joining the force.”
Source: The Telegraph
Some leaders of the Parishad, which is at loggerheads with the Morcha following the hill outfit’s Dooars Chalo movement early this month to consolidate its support base in the plains, had met Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Writers’ Buildings yesterday.
The Morcha had launched the campaign to include the Dooars in Gorkhaland, a separate state the party is demanding.
“We have made it clear to the government that we will not watch silently if the Morcha makes attempts to organise any programmes to amass support for the separate state,” said Birsa Tirkey, the state president of the Parishad.
“Our members have been instructed to renew their anti-Morcha campaign in the form of rallies, meetings and door-to-door visits to make people aware of the consequences of the division of state. We will respect law while holding such programmes,” he added.
Tirkey said people in the Dooars were not concerned over the Morcha’s activities in the hills. “But we suspect that they are inducting tribal youths into Gorkhaland Personnel only to attack and repress us. We will discourage our youths from joining the force.”
Source: The Telegraph
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