KALIMPONG
2 Nov 2013
The Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh has
rejected a proposal by the People’s Forum of nominating five candidates
for the forthcoming general elections. Terming the proposal
“meaningless”, BGP national president Dr. Enos Das Pradhan today said
there is no scope for considering it as the BGP is an apolitical body.
“The proposal made by the People’s Forum
is incorrect; this isn’t the way how candidates are selected. We cannot
make any comments on the issue as the BGP is not an organisation set up
to contest elections,” noted Pradhan.
On Friday, the People’s Forum had
proposed five names to the BGP to be put forward for the Darjeeling LS
seat under the Gorkhaland Task Force banner. It had named noted public
orator Arun Acharya, GTF secretary Munish Tamang, well-known journalists
Joel Rai and Swaraj Thapa and Forum president Gokul Sinha.
But the BGP straightaway rejected the
proposal saying, “The Forum has no authority to propose poll candidates
under the GTF banner.”
This comes in the wake of IGNOU pro
vice-chancellor Mahendra P. Lama announcing his candidature for the 2014
LS polls as an independent candidate from Darjeeling. The People’s
Forum had tried to suggest more candidate names to the Darjeeling LS
seat, but the BGP has brought its efforts to naught.
Pradhan said, “Our unit committees have
already expressed support to Mahendra P Lama. We are not at all
interested in pondering over other options.”
He added the BGP is neither for putting forward its own candidate nor is it ready to support any political party’s candidate.
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