Friday, January 08, 2010
Darjeeling
Against the backdrop of four Generals facing allegations of involvement in the Darjeeling land scam, defence minister AK Antony January 9th held a meeting with Army chief general Deepak Kapoor.
Army chief General Deepak Kapoor has been cornered over the land scam rocking the army, with pressure mounting on him to sack military secretary Lt General Avadesh Prakash. The military secretary is one of the senior-most lieutenant generals and among the eight principal staff officers who report directly to Kapoor.
IMO: Also, I was informed that holidaymakers are greatly inconvenienced by the current calls for bandhs in Darjeeling, and that right now is not a good time to visit the area. Soon yet another beauty spot may be ruined by often self-centred politics.
Further, Siliguri in West Bengal is the only supply source of necessary commodities for Sikkim, Desperately, Siliguri connects to Sikkim through Darjeeling in middle on the highway. The state of Sikkim has already envisaged the calamity arising from blockage of highway and many time the state Government requested Supreme Court for keeping the Highway undisrupted but still nothing has been done by the centre to avoid highway disruptions. State Government in another request had pledged Apex Court to certain alternative route to connect to Siliguri bypassing Darjeeling, the response from centre is still strangled bottlenecked. It is not just Sikkim alone, international highways connecting India to Nepal, Bhutan and some parts of North East Indian state too have to suffer during such hectic bandhs.
IMO: Some interested parties clearly want to create yet another new state - Ghorkaland this time. The Ghorkhaland dispute is 100 years old however, and doubtless many factors have changed in that time.
# posted by uv : 3:31 PM
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