Darjeeling
25 Aug 2013
The
process has started to appoint a successor to Bimal Gurung, who quit as
chief executive of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration after the
creation of Telangana state was announced.
Invitation letters have been sent to the
arrested members of the GTA ahead of the September 4 meeting of the GTA
Sabha to elect the new chief executive.
GTA principal secretary RD Meena today
said letters of invitation have reached the 14 arrested members of the
hill body lodged in different jails in Siliguri and Jalpaiguri.
The GTA has 45 elected members and five
nominated members. After Gurung resigned from the post of chief
executive on July 31, the GJM leadership proposed the name of Virku
Biswal, a nominated member, to succeed him, but the state government
rejected the proposal.
Meanwhile, Gurung on Saturday said the
GJM would participate in the GTA meeting only if the arrested leaders
are released from prison unconditionally.
With normal life continuing to remain
paralysed in the Darjeeling hills, a procession was today taken out from
Chowk Bazar to the railway station in Darjeeling where a large number
of CPRM workers participated.
CPRM spokesperson Gobind Chettri said his party would welcome chief minister Mamata Banerjee to Darjeeling.
“As the chief minister of the state,
Mamata Banerjee can go anywhere in the state and we will welcome her.
However, she should respect the sentiments of the Gorkhas,” he said
pointing out that the statehood demand was 107 years old. (PTI)
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