Siliguri: Gorkha National Liberation Front
chairman Subash Ghisingh has received an invitation from the
Union Home Ministry to join the tripartite talks on Gorkhaland
issue in the national capital.
The letter was sent by Home Secretary G K Pillai, GNLF
sources said.
Ghising, who left for New Delhi today, was accompanied
by party leader C K Kumai and Prakash Dahal.
The GNLF supremo will also join the meeting of six
parties from Darjeeling other than Gorkha Janamukti Morcha
(GJM) called by West Bengal government in Kolkata on
Wednesday, they said.
Meanwhile, GJM press and publicity secretary Harka
Bahadur Chhetri reacting to the invitation said: "It is a
conspiracy of the state government and GJM will prove that it
is the sole representative of the people of the Hills at the
next tripartite meeting scheduled to be held in New Delhi on
August 17".
"We have not and we will not budge an inch from our
demand of a separate state," he added.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, August 01, 2010, 18:06