GJMM PLAN TO CAPTURE THE AREA OF TERAI, DOOARS

 Gorkha Janmukti Morcha demanded Siliguri, Terai and Dooars in the interim authority on 19th November 2010 in Siliguri. A section of Nepalese covered their bodies by the name Gorkha. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is the organization of these false and fictitious gorkhas.

Nepalese are cleverly using the Gazette Notification No. 26011/6/88-ICI, Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi dated the 23rd August 1988 and a tripartite agreement on 22nd August, 1988 between Government of India, Government of West Bengal and Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) was signed on DARJEELING GORKHA HILL COUNCIL (DGHC).

It is the strategy of the expansionist, colonialist Nepalese to use the above mentioned agreement and Gazette Notification craftily and pushed a section of Nepalese to declare that they are not Nepalese, they are Gorkhas. These Nepalese know very well that they are not Gorkhas. It is a cheat case and it is also the act against the interest of the citizens of India. No Gazette notification, no Administrative order, no Agreement, no Resolution in Parliament can create ethnic group or race or community. Through natural process ethnic group or race is created. Ethnic group or race or community should be real, should be natural AND should not be unreal and unnatural. Human rights philosophy and jurisprudence support the real, natural ethnic group, race, community and oppose the unreal, unnatural ethnic group, race, community and inform the citizens on this matter.

Another significant information is that, large number of foreigner Nepalese are able enter their names in Voter List and having Voter ID cards by using the name so called Gorkhas. Actually they are not Indians. It is not only the problem of India but also an International problem. So the neighbour countries especially Bhutan, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan etc should alert that the Nepalese who show Voter ID cards of India, they might not be Indian citizen, through process of mislead and absence of effective checking these false and fictitious gorkhas acquired these Voter ID cards.

The Nepalese are entering continuously in UTTARBANGA from Nepal and thereafter most of them are claiming that they are not Nepalese, they are Gorkhas. A section of Indian Nepalese are also claiming that they are Gorkhas. These false and fictitious gorkhas are agitating for the creation of a state GORKHALAND by dividing the state of West Bengal. If they would be able to capture the Terai and Dooars area including Siliguri, then they will start their political plan and create pressure to Indians to leave that area.

There is no existence or there was no existence of Gorkha ethnic group, Gorkha race, Gorkha caste, Gorkha community or separate identity as Gorkhas like Nepalese, Assamese, Tamils etc in India, in Nepal and in the world.

News appeared in The Times of India dated 12th May 2010 as :

[GJM leader Roshan Giri, however, told TOI that they were no mood to discuss the interim set-up unless the government accepted its territorial demands. “The government insisted on discussions over devolution of power instead of considering our demand for including all Gorkha-inhabited areas in the proposed set-up].

Here GJM leader Roshan Giri mention - Gorkha-inhabited area. News appeared in The Times of India dated 13th May 2010 as :

[Apart from the three Hill subdivisions of Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong. GJM has demanded inclusion of Nepali-dominated pockets of the Dooars and the Terai in the interim arrangement]. Here the reporter mentioned – Nepali dominated area.

Nepalese of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) are claiming that they are not Nepalese, they are Gorkhas, they belong to Gorkha ethnic group, they belong to Gorkha race and they have separate identity as Gorkhas like Nepalese, Assamese etc. According to human rights philosophy, jurisprudence - the Nepalese of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha have no identity at present, they are false and fictitious Gorkhas and they are identity less persons in India; these identity less Nepalese i.e. false and fictitious Gorkhas are agitating for the creation of separate state ‘GORKHALAND’ by dividing the state of West Bengal in India; presence of identity less persons in a country is not safe for the citizens of that country and also unsafe for the unity, integrity and sovereignty of that nation.

ACTUALLY THE LEADERS OF THE GORKHA JANMUKTI MORCHA are entrusted with the work by the master planers, to expand the area of Nepalese to create GREATER NEPAL and capture North Bengal, so that they can disconnect the Darjeeling district, Jalpaiguri district, Coochbehar district, Sikkim state and North-East India from rest of India.

It is the history and empirical evidence that Nepalese emerged from Nepal, migrated from Nepal to India and settled all over India, especially Darjeeling and Sikkim were submerged under the incoming flood of Nepalese immigrants.

Migration of the Nepalese to Darjeeling from Nepal since the development of Darjeeling for economic reasons, eventually established their domination in different sectors of economy and cultural life of Darjeeling Hills. Rapid population growth of the Nepalese in Darjeeling district and adjoining areas particularly since the year 1970s, Nepalese adopted the policies of expansion and political control of North Bengal.

[In 1839 Dr. Campbell, a member of the Indian Medical Service, who was British Resident in Nepal, was transferred to Darjeeling as Superintendent from the appointment of Dr. Campbell as Superintendent dates the first immigration of Nepalese from the west and of plainsmen from the south who flocked into exploit the land under the even-handed justice administered by Campbell. Formerly, beyond a few Lepchas and Limbus with the little clearings in the forests, an occasional raid from Nepal, or a stray visitor from the table-lands of Tibets, the Darjeeling Hills were practically uninhabited] – from BENGAL DISTRICT GAZETTEERS, DARJEELING by L.S.S.O’MALLEY, 1907; published by Government of West Bengal in 2001.

In an estimation – in the year 2010 in the Darjeeling district there are about 410,000 Bengalese, 308,000 Indian Nepalese and 846,000 Foreigner Nepalese. In the year 1971 Bengalese were 20.77% of total 781,777 population of Darjeeling district. Taking into account this 20.77% - in the year 2001 there were about 333,500 Bengalese out of total population 16,05,900 in Darjeeling district. Taking into account 23% growth rate in 10 years, in the year 2010 the Bengalese are about 410,000 persons.

It is the estimate that – about THREE out of FOUR Nepalese in Darjeeling district are foreigner Nepalese in the year 2010 AND about EIGHT out of TEN Nepalese in Jalpaiguri district are foreigner Nepalese in the year 2010. In the year 1951, the population of Nepalese was 88,958 in Darjeeling district. These Nepalese and their descendents are Indian Nepalese mainly in Darjeeling district. Taking into account 10% growth rate in 10 years, in the year 2010 the population of Indian Nepalese is about 308,000.

This number 88,958 [Nepalese population in Darjeeling in 1951] is confirmed by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha [GJM] of Darjeeling. In the booklet of GJM named “WHY GORKHALAND?” the GJM mentioned – “The census of Darjeeling ........The Nepali-speaking population was shown as only 17%....”

This number 88,958 [Nepalese population in Darjeeling in 1951] is confirmed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in Rajya Sabha. Shri Prabhat Jha, Member of Rajya Sabha, of the BJP mentioned – “the census of 1951 for Darjeeling District projected the Nepali-speaking population as a miniscule minority by showing Nepali-speaking population only 17 per cent........”

There were about 134,000 Nepalese in Darjeeling district in the year 1901. According to population increase since 1911[6%, 6%, 12%, 17% respectively], population of Nepalese in 1941 was about 2,00,000 persons. But in the year 1951 this figure came down to 88,958 Nepalese population due to dangerous famine since 1942, quit India movement, economic depression, closer of many tea gardens, fear of revenge as Nepalese served the British as a dependent faithful servant against the freedom movement of India, Darjeeling was the headquarters

of Nepalese for the faithful assistance to British, deep distrust between Bengalese and Nepalese etc.

Government of West Bengal has given information in writing that there were 58.4% Nepalese [Indian Nepalese and foreigner Nepalese jointly] out of total 781,777 population of Darjeeling

district i.e. there were about 456,646 Indian Nepalese and foreigner Nepalese, jointly, in Darjeeling district in the year 1971. In the year 1971, there were about 134,000 Indian Nepalese in Darjeeling district. THAT MEANS there were about 322,000 foreigner Nepalese in Darjeeling district in the year 1971.

Based on information of Government of West Bengal [58.4% - percentage of Indian Nepalese and foreigner Nepalese] and taking into account 23 percent increase in ten years, it is the estimated that there is about 846,000 foreigner Nepalese in Darjeeling district in the year 2010. On the other hand, it is estimated that there is about 308,000 Indian Nepalese in Darjeeling district. THAT MEANS ABOUT THREE OUT OF FOUR NEPALESE IN DARJEELING DISTRICT ARE FOREIGNERS. So the question, GORKHALAND is for whom and who is a Gorkha? A STRICT CENSUS IS REQUIRED TO FIND OUT THE REAL PICTURE.

IN Census1971 Nepali population including foreigner Nepalese was 128,765 in Jalpaiguri district.

In the year 1981 Nepali population including foreigner Nepalese estimated was 158,380 growth rate 23% increased 29,615 In 1991 Nepali population estimated was 194,807 growth rate 23%

increased 36,427 .


BUT in Census 1991 Nepali population including foreigner Nepalese was about 5,50,000 [from the article ‘Jalpaiguri Gelar Nepali Samaj o Sanskriti’ by Kitapsingh Rai; Book - ‘JALPAIGURI

DISTRICT ISSUE’, published by Information and Cultural Department, Government of West Bengal, 2001]. i.e. about 355,193 (550,000 – 194,807) new foreigner Nepalese entered since 1971 to 1991.

According to estimate there was about 50,000 Nepalese in Jalpaiguri district in the year 1951. These Nepalese and their descendents are Indian Nepalese. Taking into account 10% growth rate in 10 years, the population of Indian Nepalese was about 139,000 in the year 2001 and is about 170,000 in the year 2010 in Jalpaiguri district. The population of Indian Nepalese and foreigner Nepalese, both, was 550,000 in the year 1991. Taking into account 10% growth rate in 10 years, population of Indian Nepalese and foreigner Nepalese, both, was about 676,000 in the year 2001 and is about 830,000 in the year 2010. SO THERE is about 660,000 (830,000 –

170,000) foreigner Nepalese in the year 2010 in Jalpaiguri district.

THAT MEANS ABOUT FOUR OUT OF FIVE NEPALESE IN JALPAIGURI DISTRICT ARE FOREIGNERS. A STRICT CENSUS IS REQUIRED TO FIND OUT THE REAL PICTURE.


-DIPAK DE [HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST; M.PHIL IN HUMAN RIGHTS]