GCDP-GJMM joint rally held in Dinhata

 

DINHATA (Cooch Behar), May 4: Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party (GCDP), Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) and Kamtapur Progressive Party (KPP) jointly organised a huge public meeting at Samhati Maidan in Dinhata on Sunday afternoon. Among the speakers there were GCDP president Mr Ashutosh Barma, GJMM president Mr Bimal Gurung and Mr Atul Roy (KPP).

 

In his address Mr Bimal Gurung suggested the GCDP leadership to ask people to cast their votes against the CPI-M candidates. He also advised them to come out from petty politics and fight to achieve their main goal that is a separate state. He assured that the GJMM would fight jointly with the GCDP for statehood of the proposed Greater Cooch Behar or Kamtapur as they are doing for a separate Gorkhaland.

 

Criticising the role of state urban development minister Mr Asok Bhattacharya Mr Gurung said the minister could now go to Darjeeling without any hesitation. "He is talking in delirium and he needs curative medicine to be healed", Mr Gurung commented.

 

GCDP president Mr Ashutosh Barma too came down heavily on the CPI-M and asked people to get united for a massive movement to get a separate state and recognition of their mother tongue.

 

Recently, Mr Barma had said that they want people to cast votes against the CPI-M candidates following their conscience. GCDP is in favour of people's conscience-vote at the places they were not able to field candidates.

 

It was learnt that the GCDP and its allies fielded 526 candidates in 1,668 Gram Panchayat seats and 128 candidates in 353 Panchayat Samiti seats in Cooch Behar district. They also fielded 25 candidates in 29 Zilla Parishad seats.

 

The GCDP president had alleged that at several places the CPI-M forced their candidates to stay away from the poll fray. Coercing and threatening being done to weaken the morale of GCDP supporters, he alleged. For these reasons they were not able to field candidates in several seats in blocks like Mathabhanga, Sitalkuchi and Mekhliganj, he had said. []