Relations between BJP and Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) in Darjeeling is likely to suffer as the CBI has named top party leaders like president Bimal Gurung and 21 others in its chargesheet in Madan Tamang murder case.
Tamang was the All-India Gorkha League (AIGL) president and was murdered in broad daylight in Darjeeling town in May 2010. The CID was probing the case and had also filed charge sheet. But Tamang's wife Bharati moved Calcutta High Court seeking a CBI investigation and the court had granted her prayer and asked the CBI to take up the case.
The CBI, which was probing the murder case, had submitted its last and final charge sheet in a city court here on last Friday. In the charge sheet, the CBI named top GJM leaders like its president Bimal Gurung, his wife Asha, party MLA from Kalimpong assembly seat Harkabahadur Chhetry, party's general secretary Roshan Giri, Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) chief Pradip Pradhan and other leaders of GJM.
GJM is a political ally of BJP since 2009 when the Gorkhas had supported BJP in 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Last year too, BJP's SS Alhuwalia won Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat with support from the GJM. But the charge sheet filed by the CBI naming almost all top leaders of the party has certainly unnerved the GJP top leadership and they have already contacted BJP leadership in Delhi.
GJM MLA Harkabahadur Chhetry was in Kolkata on Monday and when contacted, he refused to say anything on the issue. But senior GJM leaders told ET over phone from Darjeeling that they will hold a meeting in the Hills on June 7 to explain their position. GJM leaders also informed that they were consulting legal experts both in Kolkata and Delhi and will fight the case legally and politically. Fearing arrests by the CBI, GJM leaders are also planning to move courts for obtaining anticipatory bail.
A senior GJM leader told ET that they had already talked to the Darjeeling MP Alhuwalia who asked them not to go for any violent movement in Darjeeling hills immediately. "Mamata Banerjee government is very happy with the CBI charge sheet as the Central probe agency has named our top leaders in Tamang murder case. The CM doesn't want GJM to flourish as she has opposed our demand for a separate Gorkha state. But we expect help and support from top BJP leaders in Delhi. Our leaders are also plann .
West Bengal BJP president Rahul Sinha ruled out possibility of any deterioration in their relationship with GJM over the CBI charge sheet. "Naming someone in a charge sheet does not mean that the persons is guilty.We maintain a cordial relationship with the GJM and it will continue," Sinha claimed.
Source: economictimes
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| GJM chief with Narendra Modi and S.S. Ahluwalia before election during Modi's Siliguri visit. |
The CBI, which was probing the murder case, had submitted its last and final charge sheet in a city court here on last Friday. In the charge sheet, the CBI named top GJM leaders like its president Bimal Gurung, his wife Asha, party MLA from Kalimpong assembly seat Harkabahadur Chhetry, party's general secretary Roshan Giri, Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) chief Pradip Pradhan and other leaders of GJM.
GJM is a political ally of BJP since 2009 when the Gorkhas had supported BJP in 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Last year too, BJP's SS Alhuwalia won Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat with support from the GJM. But the charge sheet filed by the CBI naming almost all top leaders of the party has certainly unnerved the GJP top leadership and they have already contacted BJP leadership in Delhi.
GJM MLA Harkabahadur Chhetry was in Kolkata on Monday and when contacted, he refused to say anything on the issue. But senior GJM leaders told ET over phone from Darjeeling that they will hold a meeting in the Hills on June 7 to explain their position. GJM leaders also informed that they were consulting legal experts both in Kolkata and Delhi and will fight the case legally and politically. Fearing arrests by the CBI, GJM leaders are also planning to move courts for obtaining anticipatory bail.
A senior GJM leader told ET that they had already talked to the Darjeeling MP Alhuwalia who asked them not to go for any violent movement in Darjeeling hills immediately. "Mamata Banerjee government is very happy with the CBI charge sheet as the Central probe agency has named our top leaders in Tamang murder case. The CM doesn't want GJM to flourish as she has opposed our demand for a separate Gorkha state. But we expect help and support from top BJP leaders in Delhi. Our leaders are also plann .
West Bengal BJP president Rahul Sinha ruled out possibility of any deterioration in their relationship with GJM over the CBI charge sheet. "Naming someone in a charge sheet does not mean that the persons is guilty.We maintain a cordial relationship with the GJM and it will continue," Sinha claimed.
Source: economictimes
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