Darjeeling, Feb. 11: Seven families in a village of more than 150 houses in Pandem have accused the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha of ostracising them. Once a GNLF bastion, the entire valley along Pandem, near here, has now switched allegiance to the Morcha.
Urmila Tamang, a GNLF supporter, alleged that she can neither visit her relatives nor use local vehicles or sell grocery from her shop after the Morcha call for social boycott.
“They have damaged my shop and house and now even my relatives fear visiting me. No one buys anything from my shop. People do not even give us their vehicle on hire saying that they are following the Morcha diktat,” said Tamang, who is in her 50s.
C.B. Tamang, who is the GNLF Lebong Valley chief and Urmila’s husband, is currently in jail after a clash between the two rival parties on January 4. “Such diktats were against houses which have GNLF flags,” said Urmila.
A group of 10 GNLF women supporters who had come to the house of Deepak Gurung, the party’s Darjeeling branch committee president, wanted to know if a diktat had really been issued by Morcha president Bimal Gurung. “He is talking about a democratic movement and Gandhibadi. We want to know whether he has issued the social boycott order or is it the local unit at work,” said one of the women.
Gurung, too, alleged that a number of GNLF municipality commissioners were being socially boycotted. “We condemn such form of politics. These people are not only socially boycotting the villagers but they also want to drive them away from their respective localities,” he added.
Dismissing the allegation, Binay Tamang, the Morcha spokesperson, said the practice of social boycott was started by the GNLF. “We have not issued any such diktat but if the local samajs and the villagers believe that some people are creating a nuisance and if they take independent decisions against them, the party cannot say much.”
Morcha socially boycotts GNLF supporters
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well this was the morcha dikdat which had troubled me for a while and there was no one to listen to. Binay tamang is lying because these are the very people who formulate such dikats.
Take the case of glenary's. As soon as Ajay's news spread of joining the GNLF it was proclaimed by Bimal Gurung that Glenary's should be boycotted by all and this is not a myth. Morcha processions shouted "Glenary's ko roti bandh gara". And this was true because frequent visitors to Glenary's who were morcha supporters totally stopped visiting Glenary's and people feared entering Glenary's, but to tell you the truth, Glenary's is not run with the help of the locals only, but 90% with the help of the tourists. A big flop to the ban of glenary's. Yes, socially boycotting morcha anti's are one of their main agendas. Once again binay tamang is a big liar.
Now I will forcast another dikdat which they have planned. During the tourist season time, they have planned to boycott Rock Garden and Gangamaya area for the simple reason that GNLF supporters are there.
Well, my question is - its a democratic country and anyone has the choice and right to choose its own political views and opinions and thus the party, what is this implementation of force to join morcha? Has anyone asked morcha supporters why they have joined morcha? so why the hell are they harrassing people and forcing them by boycotting them socially.
I will forcast one more thing, NOW THE GORKHALAND ISSUE IS ALMOST FORGOTTEN AND the morcha people are so engrossed now on to grab ghisingh's chair. if they were genuinely fighting for the gorkhaland issue then they would not contest any elections n rather would stick to the gorkhaland demand and not compromise for the council seat or sixth schedule seat which they opposed so much.
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