GJM’s Darjeeling bandh suspended till July 5, Centre ready for tripartite talks on Gorkha issue, Bengal rules out use of force

• THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE TO VOICE OUR GRIEVANCES AND COMPLAINTS.THIS IS HARDLY THE TIME NOR THE PLACE FOR ALL THIS.THIS IS A TIME FOR ALL OF US TO UNITE.YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE AFFECTED,WE TOO ARE BEING AFFECTED BUT PLEASE LET US RISE ABOVE ALL THIS FOR THE TIME BEING AND FOCUS ON OUR GOAL AS THE PEOPLE OF DARJEELING AND THAT GOAL IS GORKHALAND.C'MON PEOPLE LET US NOT PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.LET US GET OUR PRIORITIES RIGHT.DON'T BE PENNY WISE POND FOOLISH !!! THIS IS NOT ONLY YOUR FUTURE "CONCERNED CITIZEN" BROTHER BUT OURS TOO AND THAT OF OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS AS WELL.THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR FEAR , CONFUSION AND EGOS TO TAKE OVER.WE MUST STICK TOGETHER AND TOGETHER DEMAND FOR GORKHALAND AND ONCE WE GET GORKHALAND TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD A FAIR AND JUST SOCIETY COZ YOU ARE THE SOCIETY AND THE SOCIETY IS YOU.IT ALL BEGINS WITH A DREAM WHICH WE CAN ALL MAKE A REALITY IF WE STAND BY EACH OTHER,SUPPORT EACH OTHER AND REFUSE TO BE DISTRACTED FROM OUR GOAL GORKHALAND!BE STRONG ,STAY STRONG DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ! WE CAN MAKE IT IF WE UNITE AND ARE DETERMINED ! JAI GORKHA! JAI GORKHA!
  (Posted by Sadan Thapa, June 26, 2008, 7:13 AM)

• I would like to second mr.suren's comment with a little information about and incident which has not been covered. As sudden on and off nature of strikes has caused a lot of inconvenience to the Darjeeling citizen specially the down trodden ones. I hope they have the right to grumble about it as there is a wind of DEMOCRACY blowing in Darjeeling. I believe that the ones who were grumbling about the sudden on and off strikes were MAN HANDLED yesterday and have ended up in the hospital. Is this the way a political party should handle their situation?? It’s not a child’s play, that one does as one feels. Hope it will not be like a new model of handset from the same manufacturing house, having similar basic features. At the end of the day we are responsible for our actions and we’ll face the consequences of our wrong doing? “You reap what you sow”. We should act in a responsible manner and think reasonably, we should take decisions of which we’ll be proud of when we think of it many years down the line. So get your priorities right and choose your leader with care. And the most shocking thing is that no local media has covered the MAN HANDELING situation nor the posters opposing the sudden on and off nature of strikes which was torn by GJM supporters. Aren’t we losing our freedom of expression??
  (Posted by krishna, June 25, 2008, 6:10 PM)

• Concern citizen mr. suren rai, aftre going through ur comments, i have realised that still some of the murkhs like are still there in and around gorkhaland area. Before making any comments you should realise that hardship of the people of gorhkey santan. last 100 years or more what development you have in darjeelling ? how many colleges they given you so call good govt of west bengal in darjeeling, what about water problem, it is not only in darjelling town, this problem is also in other town of darjeeling . Can think that even for peoon job you have to go to kolkatta for interview and interview will be in bangali and it will for name sak only. Going for strik is easy but to sustan u need see the situition and what Mr. Gurung and his collegues r doing is correct. do not demoralise others and affraid from the situition, this is nothing more hardship we have face to achiev our Gorkhaland. Jai Gorkha , Jai Gorkhaland.
  (Posted by Gorkhey for Gorkhland, June 25, 2008, 3:51 PM)

• Our lives and our future are in the hands of incompetent fools - the GJM. First they promised us that the agitation for Gorkhaland will be a democratic one - the Gandhian way. They said they there will be no strikes as they do not want to inconvenience us. After having gained everybodys support they conveniently broke the promises made to us. They then chase away all the tourists & call for an indefinite strike from 9th June and since then have opened the town ON & OFF. They force us to join marches to hoodwink the nation saying its a peoples movement. They have taken over various independent associations to stamp out descent. They do not allow opposition parties to hold meetings. On 22nd June they opened the town again and said even schools and tea gardens will be closed from 6 am 25th June. Now they have said the town will be open till 5th July. Now its school children who have been coarsed to go on a hunger strike. Its is absolutely intolerable and unethical to have school children on a hunger strike. Whats happened to the democratic movement they harped about so much. They are confused and do not know what they want to do. What gives them the right to play around with our lives & our livelihood and treat us with total disregard. Politically they are novices too. Taking into consideration that all major national parties have said that Grokhaland is out of the question, the GJM have left no room for negotiations quote "We do not want development but only Gorkhaland" unquote. Like a child throwing a tantrum. What does a sensible parent do when the child throws a tantrum - ignore the child till the child calms down. This is exactly what the State and the Centre are doing and not having heard from them for a while the GJM is now in panic mode. Without being invited they have gone to Delhi and to Kolkata. I am quite sure that everybody in Darjeeling district is crying out for development so how can they say we do not want development. Are they truly representing us? Thats the question we must ask ourselves. This is the party that is going to give us Gorkhaland. I dread to think what will happen if we ever get Gorkhaland. These Murkhas will ruin what ever little we have and take us back to the dark ages - Jungle Raj, thats what its going to be like. To achieve Gorkhaland and to run it effectively we need intelligent intellectual people behind it not gondas and corrupt people. There are 10 / 12 other places in our country that want statehood. Looking at these facts it cannot be achieved overnight - by 2010 as Bimal has claimed. This is a huge demand and a complex matter such as this takes a lot of time and hard work. One must make inroads in the national political arena. We must first ask for more autonomy (DGHC, Municipality etc) and govern it ethically,democratically & transparently. Prove to the nation and our own people that we are very capable of governing ourselves. Everything is achieved step by step. To get to the moon one must first have intelligent people (scientists) who will then build a rocket that is capable of reaching the moon and coming back. I appeal to everybody please let us not create another Geishing & let us say NO TO STRIKES. Let us be wise Gorkhas not Murkhas. Suren Rai concerned citizen
  (Posted by suren rai, June 25, 2008, 1:36 PM)

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