Assam - 74,000 Gorkha votes in Mangaldoi Lok Sabha constituency can be decisive

12:22 AM

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Main issues of gorkhas in the no 8 Mangaldoi (Lok Sabha constituency).All political parties are eyeing to get the support of 74,000 gorkha voters which will be decisive in the victory or defeat of any candidate:-

1. Safety and security of life and property as Extremist Organisations like NDFB has been demanding huge extortion in the INDO-BHUTAN-ARUNACHAL PRADESH bordering remote areas where Gorkhas are in majority.These extremists threaten to kill the innocent villagers and want the villagers to vacate the villages.

Gorkhas will see the response of each candidate in this matter this time and than react accordingly.

2. Assam Government has not shown any respect to the Gorkha Freedom Fighters like Chhabilal Upadhyaya under whose chairmanship the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee was formed in 1921 in Jorhat ,has not appointed any GORKHA member in APSC after Pahal Thapa;has not awarded literary pension,artist pension to Nepali writers for.so many years; has not granted any financial grants for publication of Nepali books;the GORKHA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL formed by ASSAM GOVT.is toothless with meagre fund.

3.The GORKHAS living in the Forest lands and other Government lands for decades be granted permanent pattas without prior conditions.

4.The villages where Gorkhas have a dominating population has been.deprived of many basic facilities like pure drinking water facility,road connectivity,,electricity etc,. by both BTC and STATE GOVT.

5.NEPALI MIL teachers in all schools,colleges where 15% or more Nepali speaking students attend the institutions.

Morever, the personality,behaviour and the capability of the Candidates to handle the issues will be observed.

This time GORKHAS will not just VOTE in MANGALDOI HPC but DECIDE the FATE of the CANDIDATES.

GORKHAS ARE UNITED under AAGSU & AGS UDALGURI DIST. COMMITTEE will VOTE FOR.GORKHA ISSSUE ALONGWITH THE NATIONAL ISSUE.THINK FOR PATRIOT GORKHAS & GORKHAS ARE READY TO VOTE FOR THE NATION 

Source : Ramesh Dahal

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Asom Gorkha Sammelan (AGS) threatened to field its own candidates

11:35 AM

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Demanding allotment of at least one seat by all political parties for candidates belonging to the community, the Asom Gorkha Sammelan (AGS) today threatened to field its own candidates in case parties fail to fulfill its demand.

MP from Assam Mani Kumar Subba

Addressing the media here, AGS general secretary Bhaskar Dahal said that though Gorkhas number over 30 lakh in Assam, the community has not been given proper representation in the political arena by major parties.

“As over 60 per cent of Gorkhas in Assam have been supporting the Congress over the decades, the ruling party should allot the Tezpur Lok Sabha seat to a member of our community during the forthcoming polls. Tezpur has the highest number of Gorkha voters in Assam,” he said.

Dahal added, "Other parties like the AGP and the BJP should also field at least one Gorkha candidate from any of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam. If none of the major parties field Gorkha candidates, the AGS, in consultation with other Gorkha outfits and members of other communities, will be forced to field Independent candidates from various seats."

Asked if the AGS wants the Congress to give ticket to controversial former MP MK Subba from Tezpur, Dahal said “It is an internal issue of Congress about whom they allot the ticket. Our only demand is that the ruling party should field a Gorkha candidate from Tezpur. They have been fielding a Gorkha candidate from Tezpur during past elections and the trend should not be broken.”

Source: Assam Tribune

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Gorkha citizens in Assam cannot be termed as foreigners - Gauhati HC verdict

5:17 PM

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UDALGURI– The Nepali-speaking Gorkha citizens living in Assam cannot be termed as foreigners and the label of ‘D’ be deleted from their names in the voters’ list”. This was the historic verdict of the Gauhati High Court recently. The Udalguri district committee of the Assam Gorkha Sanmelan (AGS) hailed the verdict and termed it as the historic and it thought that ‘justice was due to this ignored community in the long run.

Gauhati HC 

Talking to this correspondent, Dipak Nirola, general secretary of the Udalguri district committee expressed happiness and said that it was the victory of the community which has sacrificed blood for the nation. He further said that more than 4000 Gorkha voters of Udalguri district would feel relieved now after the verdict. “Now it is high time for the State Election Commission to start deleting the tag of ‘D’ from the names of the Nepali-speaking voters from the electoral rolls and we do hope that it will honour the verdict,” he added. He also thanked the Nepali-speaking citizens of Tinsukia and Margherita who filed petitions to this effect.

On the other hand, Jagadish Khanal, former president of the All Assam Gorkha Students’ Union (AAGSU) also hailed the High Court verdict in the case of the Gorkhas of Margherita area and hoped that the justice will soon be available to all those ‘D’ Gorkhas of the State and complimented both the senior advocates of the Gauhati High Court. Laxmi Sedai, president of BTAD Region Gorkha Sammelan also welcomed the High Court verdict and said that it would pave the way to resolve the long- pending ‘D’ voters imbroglio with the Gorkha community in the State very soon. He also congratulated both advocates RP Sarma and A Tahbildar who dealt with the case in the court.

Meanwhile, RP Sarma, senior advocate of Gauhati High Court who dealt with the case along with another senior advocate Anup Ranjan Tahabildar told this correspondent, “it was a long-pending case and the major demand of the Nepali-speaking people and organisations was solved amicably and though the verdict relieved the ‘D’ Gorkhas of Margherita area only, but soon it would be availed for all Gorkha voters of the State as soon as they apply to the concerned district authority for deleting ‘D’ from their names in the voters’ list”.

It is to be noted that 2000 Nepali-speaking voters of Margherita LAC were tagged as ‘D’ voters in the revised voters’ list prior to the 2006 Assembly elections. The case was tabled in the Dibrugarh Foreigners Tribunal instantly and after the hearing the Tribunal declared that the voters were not foreigners and also held that the Nepali-speaking voters do not fall under the purview of foreigners like the Bangladeshis. After the significant verdict of the Tribunal, a section of Nepali-speaking leaders submitted copies of petitions to the Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia district and the SDO(C) of Margherita with the arguments of the Tribunal to delete the tag of ‘D’ from the name of the Nepali-speaking voters but the officers concerned held that they could not do it itself. The case was then raised in the Gauhati High Court vide WPC 7957/2005 and the bench of Justice Biplab Kumar Sarma directed the Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia and Margherita to update the voters’ list by deleting the tag of ‘D’ from the names of the Nepali-speaking voters of the district by March 31.


Source: assamtribune

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