Siliguri (WB), July 17: The stage is set for tomorrow's signing of the milestone agreement between the Centre, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and West Bengal government on the contentious Darjeeling issue at Pintail village near here.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today arrived here and Union Home Minister P Chidambaram is scheduled to arrive tomorrow to sign the treaty which will pave the way for setting up a new hill council ‘Gorkhaland Tarritorial Administration'.
On the eve of the signing of the agreement, Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxist (CPRM), a prominent voice in the hills, today accused the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha of reneging on its promise to create Gorkhaland by agreeing to be a party of the accord.
CPRM spokesman Gobinda Chhetri said the Morcha had betrayed the cause of Gorkhaland on whose promise it had fought the last Assembly election and won.
Plains-based organisations Amra Bangali, Jana Jagaran and Jana Chetana have called a 48-hour north Bengal bandh to protest against the treaty.
The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad, which opposes inclusion of areas of Dooars and Terai regions in the GTA, has given the moral support to the bandh, its Terai unit president Nicodene Minj said.
ABAVP secretary Birsa Tirkey said, “We are not against the tripartite agreement, but against inclusion of areas of Dooars and Terai in the GTA.” PTI
