GJMM says no to bipartite talks

DARJEELING, Nov. 27: The Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha announced today that it would not sit for the purported bipartite talks with the state chief secretary Mr Amit Kiran Deb and home secretary Mr AM Chakraborty before the tripartite talks that is slated to be held in Darjeeling on 28 November.
“Some of the media channels are propagating that Mr Chakraborty and Mr Deb will hold a bipartite meeting with the GJMM president and central committee leaders to discuss modalities of the tripartite talks. But we will not attend any talks other than the tripartite talks in Delhi,” said party general secretary Mr Roshan Giri today.
The leader said that the state government was trying to tag the Gorkhaland movement as “undemocratic” by saying that tension would erupt in the Hills after the next round of talks. “The home secretary's comment proves that the state government is planning to deploy additional forces in the Hills. The Gorkhaland demand should not be related to a law and order problem,” he said.
Mr Giri maintained that in the first round of tripartite talks on 8 September between the Centre, state and the GJMM it was “decided in principle” that a series of dialogues would be held on Gorkhaland demand and the next tripartite talk will be convened by the second week of November. “The third week of November has arrived, yet we have not received any intimation on the subject,” he said.
Tomorrow, the party would organise candle light rallies in areas within the proposed territory of Gorkhaland demanding speedy tripartite talks. “We will hold other programmes also which we will announce shortly,” Mr Giri said.