What sparked the unrest in the Hills
The crisis has been brewing for decades as Gorkhaland consists of Nepali speaking people canada goose factory outlet toronto location of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and other hilly districts who don’t have much connection with the canada goose outlet new york Bengali community in terms of ethnicity, culture and language. She later clarified stating that her government has no intention of canada goose outlet website legit making Bengali compulsory in schools in Darjeeling, but the damage was already done.The parties’ agreement on Tuesday for the creation of a separate state sent a loud message to the state government. The Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) that partnered the ruling Trinamool Congress in the civic polls only last month also fully endorsed the push for a separate state, embarrassing chief minister Mamata Banerjee.For the Scroll, Shoaib Daniyal writes “The Trinamool’s politics came to fruit last month as it won the Mirik municipality in Darjeeling district. This win is highly significant as it is the first time a non Gorkha party has won anything in the hills for three decades ever since the Gorkhaland movement took off.”This win has provided momentum for the GJM (Gorkha Janmukti Morcha) to agitate around the issue of language identity even after the Trinamool has backtracked from its Bengali is compulsory stand.According to a Time of canada goose outlet uk sale India report, the BJP took part in the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) sponsored all party meeting and an apolitical outfit to advance the cause for a separate state. The GJM president Bimal Gurung posted a statement that read “The all party meeting called by (GJM) ended in a unanimous canada goose outlet in uk decision to fight for a separate state of Gorkhaland. Apart from the vow to fight for Gorkhaland, two resolutions were adopted in Tuesday’s meeting.”Tuesday saw incidents of stone pelting on the second day of the GJM sponsored indefinite bandh. The more they use force against us, the more intense will be the struggle for a separate Gorkhaland state”.On Tuesday, the general strike took an ugly turn after three SUVs packed with 15 tourists from Mumbai, 2014parka including five children, headed to Siliguri from Darjeeling were stopped by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supporters, reports the Times of India.The Hindu editorial called for the central and the state government to do more to calm the situation “Watching from the sidelines is the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is keen to expand its base in the State. While the State government must be firm and quick to quell cries for the formation of a separate state in the border region, the GJM should tread carefully as a spiral of violence hurts hill dwellers the most.The editorial points out how tourism and business will be affected should the situation in the region canada goose outlet kokemuksia become worse “With May and June constituting the peak tourist season, the GJM has, for now, kept hotels, shops and transport facilities outside the purview of the shutdown. It is the peak season for the Darjeeling tea too, with the second flush harvesting on. This eyeball to eyeball confrontation spells fresh trouble for a region that depends on tourism and tea for its survival.”According to a report in the Times of India, tourists were scared and wanted to leave immediately as one person said “We had arrived on Thursday and were to leave later, but chose to do so on Tuesday due to the worsening atmosphere. All we want is to leave this place immediately. It is a nightmare”. Others were sympathetic of the situation.”Given that language has been a fraught issue in the Darjeeling hills for more than a century, it was imprudent, in the first place, for the chief minister to have made the announcement without consulting the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA), the semi autonomous body that runs the affairs of the hill town.”The editorial does not fault the canada goose outlet london GJM and other Gorkha parties for resisting the rule but does point out the usefulness of a new language “The GJM and other Gorkha parties are not wrong in resisting “imposition of Bengali”. But identity politics aside, there is something utilitarian about learning a language. Learning the language, formally, will only help expand their economic avenues in West Bengal. For that to happen, however, all parties concerned will have to shed their canada goose outlet belgium intransigence, and look at the issue beyond immediate political gains.”An editorial by Live Mint stated that the current agitation has old roots but it’s now being used in aid of a turf war “It it was only six years ago that the GJM signed a peace deal of sorts with this canada goose outlet same government, led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee which in turn led canada goose outlet uk fake to the establishment of the GTA, the empowered avatar of the erstwhile Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, in 2012.”The editorial goes on to address the issue of why there is unrest in the hills again “The answer lies partly in the fact that ‘the Darjeeling problem’ was never quite solved. The state’s plan to quell the demand for Gorkhaland by giving the locals more autonomy brought only limited results while the protest has its roots in long standing ethnic and linguistic factors, the current flare up is the result of a political turf war between Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress (TMC) party on the one hand, and the GJM and its ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on the other.”.
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