West Bengal Election 2021: Ahead of the fifth phase voting in the West Bengal Assembly elections, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah today promised a constitutional option to the challenges of the Gorkha neighborhood. “Today, on this auspicious day, I am telling all of you that a lasting political solution to the problems of the Gorkha community will be established with the cooperation of the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state and at the Centre….I know all of you are thinking about what can be the permanent political solution to the problem of Gorkhas, but our constitution has the solution to all the problems,” mentioned Shah without the need of delving a great deal into the program.
Earlier this month, Amit Shah had reiterated his guarantee saying that the Centre is working on granting Adivasi status to 11 Gorkha communities. The BJP had created a equivalent guarantee ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The BJP had promised to obtain a permanent political option to the Gorkha community’s extended-standing demand for Gorkhaland and Schedule Tribe status to 11 Gorkha sub-communities. The neighborhood has been fighting for a separate state due to the fact the 1980s and has witnessed several violent protests.
There are 3 assembly seats in the area which the TMC has left for its ally GJM (Bimal). The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) factions are led by Bimal Gurung and Binoy Tamang. Since GJM Tamang will also be contesting the polls separately, the BJP is eying a win in all the 3 seats of Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Kurseong by fielding its candidates, sidelining its allies GNLF and CPRM.
“The three Darjeeling seats are very important for the BJP. Of the 200 seats of the BJP in Bengal, there will be a victory on 197 seats on one side and another 3 from this region….Gorkhas need to be brought to the mainstream. They’ve always sacrificed themselves for the nation,” mentioned Shah.
Amit Shah also mentioned that if BJP comes to energy, it will construct a herbal park and renovate all the Cinchona parks in the area. He mentioned that the most significant dilemma in Darjeeling is drinking water and the BJP government will speedily resolve this challenge.
He mentioned that after a BJP government is formed in the state, it will alter Darjeeling Municipality into the Darjeeling Municipal Corporation. He mentioned that the BJP government will work to give official status to the Gorkha language. The Union Home Minister also promised to withdraw all the instances registered against protesters of the Gorkha neighborhood.
“Darjeeling is one of the most beautiful cities in India and is one of the oldest established cities in India. It received the first electric connection in India, in 1897. India’s second oldest municipality was built here in 1850,” mentioned Shah recalling Darjeeling’s part in the independence of the nation.
He alleged that the Congress and CPI-M had deprived the state of improvement soon after independence. He urged voters to strengthen PM Narendra Modi’s hand by voting for the BJP.