Buddha to open dialogue with GJM: Left Front

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West Bengal's ruling Left Front entrusted Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with the task of opening a dialogue with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha so that a solution to the Darjeeling imbroglio could be found.

"The GJM's rejection to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's invitation to attend the meeting on June 18 here does not mean the process of discussion is over," Left Front chairman Biman Bose said after a meeting of the Left Front committee.

The Left Front has asked the chief minister to continue his initiative to hold talks with GJM president Bimal Gurung, Bose said.

He ruled out any invitation to the GJM at the all-party meeting on June 17 in Kolkata on the ground that the meeting could be attended only by representatives of political parties.

He said that the GJM was spearheading the movement but it was not a registered political party and hence did not qualify to be invited to the all-party meeting.

He said that in 1985, when the Gorkhaland movement first surfaced under the leadership of Subash Ghising, an all-party meeting had been convened by the then chief minister Jyoti Basu.