SILIGURI : The Bangla O Bangla Bhasa Bachao Committee has convened a 24-hour north Bengal bandh on 12 February to protest against the ‘acts of vandalism’ being indulged into by the GJM and also against the Centre and the state government’s ‘appeasement policy’ vis-à-vis the growing graph of the GJM-instigated subversion in the Darjeeling hills and in the plains.
Other pressure groups operating in the Teari-Dooars region have, however, decided to stay away from the bandh.
Announcing the proposed shutdown, the BOBBBC president Dr Mukunda Majumder said today that his organisation would spare no effort to mobilise public opinion against the GJM-sponsored hooliganism. “The hill party activists, having intentionally brought the separatist momentum down in the plains, have been attacking the tribals and the people of other ethnic communities, including journalists, police and petty traders, with impunity”.“The state government’s continuing temerity is emboldening the separatists to sharpen the assault pitch,” he added.
He also demanded immediate scrapping of Art 7 of the 1950 Indo-Nepal treaty empowering the Nepali citizens to reside and trade within the Indian territory and screening and deleting names of the aliens from the voters’ list taking 1950 as the cut-off year.
“We have ample evidence suggesting that a large number of Nepalese are crossing the border everyday and settling down in the Terai-Dooars region. And these aliens are instigating violence in cahoots with the GJM cadres,” he said.
(Courtsey : The Statesman)
Other pressure groups operating in the Teari-Dooars region have, however, decided to stay away from the bandh.
Announcing the proposed shutdown, the BOBBBC president Dr Mukunda Majumder said today that his organisation would spare no effort to mobilise public opinion against the GJM-sponsored hooliganism. “The hill party activists, having intentionally brought the separatist momentum down in the plains, have been attacking the tribals and the people of other ethnic communities, including journalists, police and petty traders, with impunity”.“The state government’s continuing temerity is emboldening the separatists to sharpen the assault pitch,” he added.
He also demanded immediate scrapping of Art 7 of the 1950 Indo-Nepal treaty empowering the Nepali citizens to reside and trade within the Indian territory and screening and deleting names of the aliens from the voters’ list taking 1950 as the cut-off year.
“We have ample evidence suggesting that a large number of Nepalese are crossing the border everyday and settling down in the Terai-Dooars region. And these aliens are instigating violence in cahoots with the GJM cadres,” he said.
(Courtsey : The Statesman)
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