CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday urged Home Minister Rajnath Singh to immediately convene tripartite talks to bring peace in Darjeeling area. In a letter, Yechury said tripartite talks between Centre, West Bengal State Government and Gorkhaland Territorial Administration has to be convened as per the earlier agreements related to the region.
"The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration was created through the gazette notification of the GTA Act on March 14, 2012 following the assent by the President of India. This was the outcome of a tripartite agreement that was arrived at between the Central Government, the state government and the Gorkhaland Janmukti Morcha (GJM).
"Given the worsening situation and gross denial of human rights and the hardships that the people in the are being subjected to, urgent intervention is required. It is clear that the restoration of peace and normalcy in the area can happen only through a dialogue for which the process of talks between the three parties that created the GTA must immediately begin," said Yechury reiterating the need for calling tripartite meeting.