Educated people keep in touch with PM contradicting Gorkhaland request

Kolkata, July 11 Intellectuals from assorted fields in West Bengal have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking for rebuilding of commonality in Darjeeling.

A large group of savvy people from the fields of writing, painting and acting, a hefty portion of whom are of national notoriety, spoke to the Prime Minister "to find a way to undermine the unsettling and reestablish commonality in Darjeeling hills".

"A segment of populace of the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal have raised at the end of the day interest for a different Gorkhaland state on a shaky ground. Their damaging exercises have tossed open life absolutely out of gear.

"Their demand for advance division of Bengal is getting rash help from some political quarters working from outside," the letter said.

"Contrary to the allegation of the hills people, people of Bengal have dependably remained by them in their efforts to enrich their culture, language and ethos with proper honour," the letter said.


Sahitya Academi grant winning creators Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Dibyendu Palit, Nabanita Deb Sen, traditional vocalist Pandit Ajay Chakraborty, painters Ganesh Halui and Wasim Kapoor and on-screen character Ranjit Mallick are among the individuals who marked the letter.

"The West Bengal government, toward this direction, has constituted a large group of dialect and development boards," the intellectuals wrote in help of the activities of Mamata Banerjee-drove administration in the state regarding the hills.

Claiming that demaand for a different Gorkhaland state has no authentic locus standi, the letter said "the state can't and ought not accept such a stance.