GJM ignored,Ghising invited for talks

On Sunday,Ghising along with his two associates left for Delhi to have talks with Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken and Union Home Secretary G K Pillai tomorrow. After that meeting Ghising will come to Kolkata to join the August 3 meeting.

Bringing the GNLF chairman,who still has some fan following in Darjeeling,into the picture is being seen as a very clever move in the political circles. The step appears to be aimed at marginalising the GJM,which is on the backfoot following the murder of All India Gorkha League president Madan Tamang,in Darjeeling politics.

As the state government was not very happy to sit with the GJM across the table during the last tripartite talks in New Delhi on July 24,the state government urged the central government to invite Ghising for talks in Delhi. Therefore,Maken called Ghising to come over and meet him.

At the August 3 meeting,the state government is likely to discuss their proposal on the Interim Hill Council,submitted to the Central government on July 24.