So long parties sketch road plans, it is anybody’s game
Mind games and the right move matters in politics. The maverick Subash Ghisingh’s expected move to support the Trinamool Congress’s football player Bhaichung Bhutia may have raised eyebrows to many but simultaneously it has gone on to show that, those alleging Mamata’s hand in bringing Ghisingh to the hills, has failed to address the key issue of separate state.
That Ghisingh is back in the hills could be Mamata’s politics cannot be ruled out. At the same time it cannot be ruled out that the hill party on whose hand the demand was laid by the people offered lots of weaker points for her to act in an easy way.
In the larger context, it is easy to say than deliver. The hill party after ousting the once regarded ‘king of the hills’ in 2008 successfully was bound to find him back in the hills. The party lacked proper planning to lay the foundation for taking the demand to the highest point.
Even today, with two weeks left for the first vote to be polled, the GJM-BJP alliance is failing to tell us the actual plan and programme for the creation of Gorkhaland. The only promise made by the BJP is it would look to the demand ‘sympathetically’. The GJM is only hopeful that the BJP will create the 30th state of the country as ‘Gorkhaland’.
For once if we forget the past, Ghisingh has not uttered or demanded ‘Gorkhaland’ in the long run. He has stuck himself with implementation of sixth schedule which he feels is a stepping stone towards creation of Gorkhaland. The Bodoland Territorial Council in Assam under the sixth schedule status is a recent example to that. The centre has agreed to form a committee to look into the possibility of formation of Bodoland; a demand of the Bodo’s which is very young to Gorkhaland.
So, even if it is Mamata’s plan to bring back Ghisingh to the hills in a bid to cut size the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) it should not pose a problem for the people of the hills so long Ghisingh has a plan to attain statehood through his silent politics. Ofcourse that means it is definitely posing threats of eradication for the GJM within just a few years as long as it does not sketch a road plan to attain statehood immediately.
Vivek Ghatani - Editor Indian Gorkhas
Mind games and the right move matters in politics. The maverick Subash Ghisingh’s expected move to support the Trinamool Congress’s football player Bhaichung Bhutia may have raised eyebrows to many but simultaneously it has gone on to show that, those alleging Mamata’s hand in bringing Ghisingh to the hills, has failed to address the key issue of separate state.
That Ghisingh is back in the hills could be Mamata’s politics cannot be ruled out. At the same time it cannot be ruled out that the hill party on whose hand the demand was laid by the people offered lots of weaker points for her to act in an easy way.
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| Mind games & right moves matters in Politics |
Even today, with two weeks left for the first vote to be polled, the GJM-BJP alliance is failing to tell us the actual plan and programme for the creation of Gorkhaland. The only promise made by the BJP is it would look to the demand ‘sympathetically’. The GJM is only hopeful that the BJP will create the 30th state of the country as ‘Gorkhaland’.
For once if we forget the past, Ghisingh has not uttered or demanded ‘Gorkhaland’ in the long run. He has stuck himself with implementation of sixth schedule which he feels is a stepping stone towards creation of Gorkhaland. The Bodoland Territorial Council in Assam under the sixth schedule status is a recent example to that. The centre has agreed to form a committee to look into the possibility of formation of Bodoland; a demand of the Bodo’s which is very young to Gorkhaland.
So, even if it is Mamata’s plan to bring back Ghisingh to the hills in a bid to cut size the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) it should not pose a problem for the people of the hills so long Ghisingh has a plan to attain statehood through his silent politics. Ofcourse that means it is definitely posing threats of eradication for the GJM within just a few years as long as it does not sketch a road plan to attain statehood immediately.
Vivek Ghatani - Editor Indian Gorkhas
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