Kolkata, April 17: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), contesting the elections for the first time, will raise the Gorkhaland issue in the West Bengal Assembly if its representatives are elected.
“We want to go to the Assembly to raise our voice for a separate Gorkhaland and if we are not allowed to place that demand then we will certainly walk out and send our resignation,” GJM spokesperson Harka Bahadur Chetri told PTI over phone.
When reminded that the government and the two major political parties, CPI(M) and opposition Trinamool Congress, were against a separate Gorkhaland and unlikely to allow the GJM to raise the issue, Chetri was undaunted.
“If we win the elections then it is certain that the people of the hills are with us and if the government wants to throttle the voice of the people then we have no reason to stay there,” he said.
-Agencies