BGP delegation met Cabinet Minister Kiren Rijiju for separate state for Indian Gorkhas

A delegation of the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP), lead by its president Sukhman Moktan, had a meeting with Union minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi today, March 7, 2016. The BGP discussed various issues related to India's Gorkhas with the minister, the primary of them being the creation of a separate state.

Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, a Indian Gorkha Confederation and a non-government national-level Indian Gorkhas organization  has identified six issues of the Indian Gorkhas to be resolved at the national level:

1. Creation of a separate state for the Gorkhas of India
2. Identification of the problems of tea garden and cinchona plantation in Darjeeling-Dooars as a national problem
3. Addressing the sense of insecurity and uncertainty in the minds of Gorkhas of Northeast India
4. Commissioning of a Doordarshan channel dedicated to the Nepali-speaking Gorkhas
5. Accessing for Gorkhas all social benefits under Constitutional provisions like SC, ST, OBC, etc., in all parts of India and nomination of Gorkhas to public and government bodies
6. Recognition of Gorkhas as a linguistic minority community

Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP) also discussed about the protection of civil and political rights of Gorkhas in the Northeast, the rights of tea garden workers in Darjeeling and Dooars, a Doordarshan channel in the Nepali language and the granting of Central OBC status to Gorkhas across India.

Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh delegation met Cabinet Minister

Via Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh

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