Apropos The Statesman News Service, 15 January 2010, ‘GNLF trying to resurface’.
In order to acquire a state Constitutionally speaking it is desirable not only the GNLF resurface but all pro statehood parties, in order to resurface with dignity and appreciation, give a blanket support to GJMM, at least at this stage before the Fifth Tripartite meeting to give further boost to the entire agitation having reached a final point of climax. No doubt there were and are ideological differences amongst the plethora of hill based political parties as well as the national. However at this point of juncture it is only proper and convincing to espouse the oneness of thought by all concerned in regard to obtaining the desired statehood. This is the program which requires to be understood not only by the political parties in the fray but more importantly the stakeholders, the hill people.
The information in the news the GNLF leader from Kalimpong Dawa Pakrin partook in a sit-in-demonstration in Jantar Mantar in New Delhi is no doubt a noble effort, late than never, so the saying goes. However the contention of the organizers Bharatiya Federation of new states (a newly floated body advocating for smaller states) is of symbolic importance then a Constitutional and legal interpretation. It is probable the GNLF leader is not familiar nor acquainted with the Constitutional provisions provided for Darjeeling District in the Govt. of India Act 1935 and Order 1936 and accorded deliberations thereof till independence n 1947 and forwarded inclusive to the promulgation of the Constitution in 1950. The GNLF President and members too require to follow the Constitutional roadmap then adhere to alternative political stances in espousing the statehood agenda instead of sabre rattling under the self styled umbrella, the Gorkhaland Protection Committee threatening financial allegations of betre noir leader. This sort of scuffling is no doubt characteristic of the hill peoples in general and is a setback delaying statehood, advantage to the State, since 1935 when the Act and Order was passed.
Now that the time is ripe for the fruitation after years of cultivating the idea of statehood past decades, at least over a century it is claimed. Considering this long wait in retrospect the stakeholders, the Darjeeling hill peoples require reading deep into the past history in order to eliminate any act of omissions and commissions, which directly or indirectly may have hampered the cause in extending the time period to 2010. The rule of the game as a matter of fact is provided by the Constitution, which has already provided Darjeeling District in a statement, above mentioned Act and Order of 1935 with provisions for its final assimilation into the federation of India by the impact of the terminology Partially Excluded Area, a constitutional provision in determining future state formations of the Union.
Public memory as a general rule is very short lived hence all the political parties refrain from covert and overt claims and counter claims of vendettas and unwarranted statesman which tend to create a bitterness in the mouth already parched dry with past over twenty years of perceived void in the District which requires amendment in the present mode of operation. Transparency and clearness of the mind and effort is the basic need of the hour without resorting to intended vituperations which do not bear any fruit in the tree let alone to pluck and eat thereof.
Hillman-the Analyst.
(Posted by yolmo4@gmail.com, January 23, 2010, 8:59 PM)