GJAC members can adopt own programmes: JB Rai

PRADIP LOHAGUN

KALIMPONG

18 Sep 2013

Gorkhaland Joint Action Committee vice president JB Rai today said the committee’s constituents can adopt their own policies and programmes since the GJAC does not have a code of conduct for adopting policies.

Rai’s statement comes in the wake of GJM chief Bimal Gurung’s public speech on Tuesday declaring an intensified struggle after September 20.

Rai, who is also the CPRM vice president, said, “The GJM chief is announcing programmes that haven’t been passed by the committee. They are not the GJAC’s decisions.”

He said GJAC members can go forth with their own programmes in demand of a separate state and noted, “Though the committee has been formed, we have been unable to maintain a code of conduct while forming strategies and passing programmes”.

However, Rai maintained the GJAC would formulate future programmes in accordance with developments in national level politics.