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The CBI chargesheet against senior Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leaders, including party president Bimal Gurung, in the All India Gorkha League leader Madan Tamang's murder case has sent ripples in Hills politics.
The chargesheet comes after the CID charge-sheeted 30 senior GJM leaders though GJM is part of the NDA family. State BJP president Rahul Sinha on Saturday made a laboured attempt to argue in favour of the accused. "Some senior GJM leaders have been charge-sheeted. But that doesn't mean they are guilty," Sinha said.
Bimal Gurung on Saturday said he and several others named in the CBI charge sheet in connection with the murder of All India Gorkha League leader Madan Tamang were innocent.
"Me, wife Asha, party MLA Harkabahadur Chettri and all others in the Morcha are innocent and we are victims of a conspiracy," Gurung told a hastily-called press conference here.
The GJM leader, who however refrained from elaborating on the conspiracy, said, "We have faith in the judicial system and let the truth come out about the murder."
Political observers maintain that the Narendra Modi government may use the CBI chargesheet to keep the GJM under leash. For the moment, the accused GJM leaders have no other option but to defend their case in Calcutta high court. Senior GJM functionaries huddled into a meeting in Darjeeling on Saturday to chalk out their future strategy. After the meeting, GJM assistant secretary Jyoti Kumar Rai said: "Naming senior GJM leaders in the AIGL president's murder is a deep political conspiracy. However, we are confident that truth will ultimately prevail and the GJM leaders who have been framed will be proved innocent. We have full faith in the judiciary."
The CBI chargesheet has come as a shot in the arm to Madan Tamang's widow Bharati. "I am very happy that the CBI has filed its charge sheet. The agency is doing its duty. Now, I feel we will finally get justice," the victim's widow said.
The AIGL leader was hacked to death on May 21, 2010 in broad daylight near the Upper Clubside area while overseeing preparations for the party's public meeting that fateful day. The CBI took over the investigation in 2011 at the direction of Calcutta high court. "We are continuing our fight for justice even though the murder took place five years ago. My husband's murder was the assassination of democracy, therefore justice must be given," Bharati said.
The CID had first taken up the Madan Tamang murder case and had submitted a charge sheet figuring names of thirty GJM leaders and activists, including that of Nicole Tamang, a central committee leader. "The murder is an open book and everyone knows who did it. All I want is that the culprits/accused be arrested and punished," said Bharati.
Soon after Nicole Tamang's arrest, the man mysteriously escaped from police custody at Pintail village near Siliguri while being questioned by the CID on August 16, 2010. He has been on the run since then. All those named in the state and central agency's chargesheet are presently out on bail and two, including Nicole, are absconding. One accused, Dil Kumar Rai, was found dead in his home on December 28, 2011.
Govind Chhetri of the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxist (CPRM) hailed the development. "It is better late than never. We have hope in the judiciary and believe that the court will deliver justice without prejudice," Chhetri said.
Source: TNN
The CBI chargesheet against senior Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leaders, including party president Bimal Gurung, in the All India Gorkha League leader Madan Tamang's murder case has sent ripples in Hills politics.
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Bimal Gurung on Saturday said he and several others named in the CBI charge sheet in connection with the murder of All India Gorkha League leader Madan Tamang were innocent.
"Me, wife Asha, party MLA Harkabahadur Chettri and all others in the Morcha are innocent and we are victims of a conspiracy," Gurung told a hastily-called press conference here.
The GJM leader, who however refrained from elaborating on the conspiracy, said, "We have faith in the judicial system and let the truth come out about the murder."
Political observers maintain that the Narendra Modi government may use the CBI chargesheet to keep the GJM under leash. For the moment, the accused GJM leaders have no other option but to defend their case in Calcutta high court. Senior GJM functionaries huddled into a meeting in Darjeeling on Saturday to chalk out their future strategy. After the meeting, GJM assistant secretary Jyoti Kumar Rai said: "Naming senior GJM leaders in the AIGL president's murder is a deep political conspiracy. However, we are confident that truth will ultimately prevail and the GJM leaders who have been framed will be proved innocent. We have full faith in the judiciary."
The CBI chargesheet has come as a shot in the arm to Madan Tamang's widow Bharati. "I am very happy that the CBI has filed its charge sheet. The agency is doing its duty. Now, I feel we will finally get justice," the victim's widow said.
The AIGL leader was hacked to death on May 21, 2010 in broad daylight near the Upper Clubside area while overseeing preparations for the party's public meeting that fateful day. The CBI took over the investigation in 2011 at the direction of Calcutta high court. "We are continuing our fight for justice even though the murder took place five years ago. My husband's murder was the assassination of democracy, therefore justice must be given," Bharati said.
The CID had first taken up the Madan Tamang murder case and had submitted a charge sheet figuring names of thirty GJM leaders and activists, including that of Nicole Tamang, a central committee leader. "The murder is an open book and everyone knows who did it. All I want is that the culprits/accused be arrested and punished," said Bharati.
Soon after Nicole Tamang's arrest, the man mysteriously escaped from police custody at Pintail village near Siliguri while being questioned by the CID on August 16, 2010. He has been on the run since then. All those named in the state and central agency's chargesheet are presently out on bail and two, including Nicole, are absconding. One accused, Dil Kumar Rai, was found dead in his home on December 28, 2011.
Govind Chhetri of the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxist (CPRM) hailed the development. "It is better late than never. We have hope in the judiciary and believe that the court will deliver justice without prejudice," Chhetri said.
Source: TNN
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