Himalayan Times (1961)

Four

Himalayan Times

July 9, 1961

GHOSB APPEALS

'SNflf' FOR UNITY

finta@BmXiOlytnt£g Siliguri, July 0

In a meeting of tbs

14 JMo. 47, Kfllimpon&^MiyT^I^T »»•»»•* 0™«"»«

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""^T™^™" Ghose made an appeal

LANGUAGE ISSUE for unity among the rank

and file of the Congress.

Sri Atulya Qbose has oome to an agreement and He urged upon the local

blamed the people, who are find some sort of solution Congessmen to forget their

advooating for tbe cause whioh will safeguard the pttty differences and stand

of Nepali to be the only interest of all inoluding united to fight the eleo-

language of this distriot. the minorities. tion.

He has obarged that these a,: „i.„.i„

neople are working for LAf&ft HONOURED . . Sr' 0,early ef

peopu bid wuikiug lur inkii lupnue plained the language poll-

the oe.s.fon of this d,s- IN KALIMPONG H ^

tnot from the State ot Kalimpong, July 5 ment as also of the Con-

West Bengal Tbomo Geysey Rim- greBS. In this conneotiou

The language issue of P°°he, Head Priest of the he referred to the reeent
this distriot has oaused Tharpa Choling Monastery, letter of the Prime Mi-
a oonfusion in tbe minds Kalimpong who was re- nister Nehru dated 11th
of many People do not °»nt)y "leased by the June 1961.
know exactly what are Chinese authorities in t'i- . In the light of Sri
the demands of the Lan- bet- waB g'^en a warm Nehru's opinion Sri Ghoss
guago Implementation welcome by hundreds of urged upon the Congress-
Committee. The Committee . Tibetans on his arrival men both in hill areas
oonsists of members from • at Kalimpong. The mem- and plains to aooept, Sri
all political parties but all bers of 'he. 1 harpa Cho- Nehru's verdict on the
these parties have diffe- lln8 Monastery gave a language issue. He also
rent stand .on the lan- "oeptfon in his honour referred to the present
guagt issue. Members of thi» morning when a large Nepali language agitation
the Committee also do number of guests were in the bill areas and said
not agree to each others present. Hundreds of Bud- the supporters of iutro-
viewpoint. dhist devotees visited the duoing Nepali language as

monastery today ami re. the only official language

All the political par. ceived blessings. for this hill distriot are

ties of this district are -r=-—-———- in a way identifying them-

aotive now and they have r OR SALE selves with a suicidal
tried to exploit the lan- One Dodge i ton Truck move regarding the ulti-
guage issue to maximum. '«> tip-top running oondi- mate cessation of hill
As a matter of faot we ''c,n. Completely 'over- areas from West Bengal,
usod to hear very little hauled recently. Inspeo-' Sri P.C. Sen, Sri K.N.
about the activities of tion with previous ap- Das Gupta, dri 1\ Wangdi
these parties prior to the pointment. Bn(j yri ft. u_ Guiung
language isBue. It is time Contaot: Ratiram Ban- also addressed the meet-
that these parties should shilal, Kalimpong. ing.