Trinamool Congress should take clear stand on GJMM agitation: Md Salim
Kolkata: The Centre's nod to initiate the process for the formation of the Telangana State, has given an opportunity to the various political parties to come forward with their own benefits. To add to the problems of the Central Government,
the whole country seems to have come forward demanding statehood in different
regions. Meanwhile, the different political outfits for their own vested interests
have ignited the 96-hour fast called by the Gorkhaland. The Congress, the BJP
and even the Trinamool Congress have fanned the Gorkhaland fire before different
elections in the state to gain benefit for themselves. The CPI (M) has today asked
the opposition Trinamool Congress to make its stand clear on the Gorkhaland issue.
Senior CPI (M) leader Md Salim claims that over the last two decades, different
political parties from the BJP to the Congress to the Trinamool Congress have
offered tacit support to the violent agitators of the Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha
(GJMM) to gain their support to win the elections. However, Md Salim said the
time has now come for Trinamool Congress to make its stand clear on whether they
supported the violent Gorkhaland agitation for a separate state or not. It may
be recalled here that Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee has over a period
of time made contradictory statements in relation to the party's stand to the
Gorkhaland issue. Banerjee recently said that she did not want Bengal to be divided,
but had kept quite on the agitation by the GJMM The CPI (M) is trying to create
pressure on the main opposition party in West Bengal to take a clear stand on
the issue now. However, addressing a press conference today, Banerjee made no
comments on the Gorkhaland agitation.
