Tripartite talks on Gorkhaland end positively

NEW DELHI - Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Secretary Roshan Giri, who led the 7th secretarial level tripartite talks with the Bengal Government in New Delhi has said the meeting was successful.

“The meeting was successful. Most of the subjects we raised have been considered. Now we just have to talk about the territories of Terai and Dooars. This would be also taken up in the political level meeting,” he said.

He also informed that those issues, which could not be addressed or resolved at this meeting, would be again taken up in the next official tripartite meet.

“All those topics on which we could not come to any possible solution, these would be again taken up in the next political level meeting. The next tripartite level official meeting is going to be held on September 7,” he added.

Union Home Secretary GK Pillai, State Home Secretary Samar Ghose were present from the Bengal side and from the GJM side, besides Roshan Giri, there were six other members from the (Gorkha Adivasi) Study Forum.

Earlier ‘political-level’ talks were held at New Delhi on July 24.

The Gorkha population in West Bengal is around a million out of the state’s 80 million people. (ANI)