Impact of the cancellation/review of the Indo-Nepal Treaty of 1950

Cancellation of the treaty would have no negative impact on the Indian Gorkhas. Rather, it would help us in establishing our Indian identity. As regards to the Mancha’s demand that those who have immigrated to India from Nepal after 1950 should be identified and deported, all we have to say is that, on signing the treaty the immigration and settling of people from Nepal and vice-versa the emigration and settling of Indians in Nepal have been legalized by the government by virtue of an International treaty. So the issue of identification and deportation of those who have settled after 1950 does not hold water. Having said so, we demand of the West Bengal government to go back to its definition of ‘Refugee from Bangladesh’ ( which states that Refugees from Bangladesh are families which were displaced from erstwhile East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) and settled in West Bengal prior to 25th March 1971’) and identify all those illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and deport them. Further, people like Prof. Haren Ghosh, who himself is a refugee from Bangladesh (His family immigrated to India and Prof. Ghosh and his brothers spent the early part of their life in Kurseong. His brother, Sudhir Ghosh was even the Headmaster of the Krisnamaya Memorial High School, a Nepali High School in Siliguri) and spearheading the Jan Jagaran Mancha need to be hauled up by the administration for spreading canard regarding the Gorkha community and trying to create communal divide as well as, give fillip to the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the Gorkhas in Siliguri and adjoining areas.