THE OLD SETTLERS OF SIKKIM

SIKKIM:SNPP censures Prem Goyal statements


FROM HAALKHABAR.NET


Gangtok, December 14: Deeply infuriated with the statements of Nagarik Suraksha Sangathan (NSS) convener, Prem Goyal a week back, wherein he had demanded Residential Certificate (RC) should provide equal status as Sikkim Subject Certificates (SSC), Sikkim National Peoples Party (SNPP) President, Biraj Adhikari, roared high today on the issue stating that Goyal is flying tall in Sikkimese issue and had no right to make comments in integral matters being himself a non- Sikkimese.

Goyal should demand of work permits rather than seeking equivalent status as Sikkimese people. He should understand that SNPP will not let the RC prevail over SSC whatsoever, he said.

In a SNPP press conference held here at the capital, Adhikari slammed all rising voices of equal status and facilities compared to Sikkimese citizens stating that the Non- Sikkimese organizations should think twice before making comments on Sikkimese issues. We cannot entitle outsiders as state people from now on as it is weakening our little amount of left bargaining power with the Government of India, he added.

Coming back to Goyal, Adhikari said that Goyal should examine the clauses of government notification published in year 1995 which states 1975 as a cut off year but only after fulfilling 6 point criteria. Goyal does not find himself near that criterion which makes him inevitable to make such irresponsible comments, he alleged.

Commenting on the left-out crisis, SNPP President said that the issue that creeps out in every 10 years had given rise to immense influx in the state. He also expressed it as interference in national security, Sikkim being a hilly border state.

Also sensing a smell a betrayal concerning national interest, Adhikari alleged that the state chief minister himself having a good tie up with the Maoists power of Nepal and is indulged in dual citizenship case, Chamling policy is itself an anti national said Adhikari, concerning with the case of corruption in CBI of Chamling, he assumed that the huge money might be funding anti India powers.

31 thousands influx counting at prior and forceful implementation of RC at present clearly indicates that Chamling is trying to submerge Sikkimese values against of which the state people should protest, he stressed.