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02 April, 2004; NOW! 1 Friday, 02 April, 2004 Vol. 3 No. 06 Gangtok Rs. 3 Air-Conditioned Grocery Shop for Provisional Goods, Dry Fruits & All Hotel Requirements (for kitchen) WHOLE-SALES RETAIL-SALES at the most reasonable prices Rajdeep Spectrum Color Lab Building, Near Amar/ Chaman Garage, Sevoke Road, Siliguri ph: 2640799, 2640599 SDF EXPELS GAC CHAIRMAN Denied Central Pendam ticket, GM Rai breaks away to form new party earlier in the morning. Served a Pendam, a constituency he had time he was speaking to NOW! SARIKAH ATREYA show-cause notice by the party been eyeing and cultivating for Mr. Gooroong, when asked to GANGTOK, 01 April: Peeved by high-command on 10 March quite some time now. comment on the latest entrant in the the fact that the Sikkim Democratic warning him against indulging in “We are launching a new party political scene, said: “What can we Front [SDF] did not give him the anti-party activities, the party very soon. This party will be based say. It’s a democracy and everyone Central Pendam ticket, GM Rai has decided to expel him today. on the fundamentals of the Gorkha has the right to form political parties.” decided to fight the elections un- The show-cause, party Apex Committee,” he said. Pressed to share more details in der a new party banner altogether. sources reveal, was sent to him by GAC cannot enter the fray di- the new party that he was planning to Asked to share his reactions to registered post, but Mr. Rai con- rectly since it is registered as a social float, Mr. Rai said that his new party the selection of PS Tamang [Goley] sistently denied having received organisation, not a political party. would be pursuing three basic issues. as the SDF candidate for the Cen- it. The news of his expulsion was On being asked whether he has “Our party will be based on tral-Pendam seat, Mr. Rai told confirmed by BB Gooroong, po- formally left the party, Mr. Rai said three main issues for delimitation NOW! that in light of the latest litical advisor to the SDF presi- that denying him the ticket would on the basis of population, amend- GAC chairman, GM Rai, now a development, he is forced to con- dent and Chief Minister, Pawan “definitely mean” that he is no turn to pg 3 former SDF vice-president test the Central Pendam seat, but Chamling. longer in the party. under a new party banner. News of the expulsion notwith- “When I am denied a ticket, it small price Speaking to NOW! this after- standing, Mr. Rai, had apparently means that I am no longer in the HCL noon, he was obviously unaware made up his mind to float a new SDF party,” he said. 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A Penetrating Glance truth is in the timeline: dence, killing his daughter, and Clinton, advised by Dick dropped a bomb on the French Clarke, did nothing. Into The Obvious President Carter, Democrat Embassy “by mistake.” In June 1996, a U.S. Air Force In 1979, President Jimmy Carter After someone has spent almost three decades in active politics housing complex in Saudi Arabia allowed the Shah of Iran to be de- and a decade and a half at the helm of affairs, one expects much was bombed by Muslim extremists. better. Mr. Bhandari has been a part of politics in Sikkim ever since posed by a mob of Islamic fanat- elsewhere Clinton, advised by Dick the Himalayan state has known democracy and has the advantage ics. A few months later, Muslims Reagan also stoked a long, Clarke, did nothing. of experience over all others. One would have thus expected a much stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran bloody war between heinous re- Months later, Saddam attacked better election manifesto from him than the one that was released a and took American Embassy staff gimes in Iran and Iraq. All this was the Kurdish-controlled city of Erbil. couple of days back. Even if one were to excuse the usual bluster hostage. Carter retaliated by while winning a final victory over Clinton, advised by Dick that politics demands and the jabs at opponents that make for ag- canceling Iranian visas. He even- Soviet totalitarianism. Clarke, lobbed some bombs into gressive campaigning, a manifesto is above all the party’s ideology tually ordered a disastrous and hu- Iraq hundreds of miles from in black and white. It is also a party’s vision on development and its miliating rescue attempt, crashing President Bush [Sr.], Moderate road-map for the next five years. To announce that the party “is Saddam’s forces. helicopters in the desert. Republican keen” to provide a clean, efficient and corruption-free government In November 1997, Iraq refused In December 1988, a passenger jet, is stating the obvious. No one would assure otherwise. What the President Reagan, Republican to allow U.N. weapons inspections Pan Am Flight 103, was bombed people want of a manifesto is exact details on how this clean, effi- The day of Reagan’s inauguration, to do their jobs and threatened to over Lockerbie, Scotland, by Mus- cient and corruption-free government will be delivered. The Con- the hostages were released. shoot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane. lim extremists. gress manifesto, sadly, gets specific on only sops and in reversing In 1982, the U.S. Embassy in Clinton, advised by Dick President-elect George Bush decisions that have worked in the favour of the SDF government. Beirut was bombed by Muslim ex- Clarke, did nothing. Starting with the political and social policies of the Congress in claimed he would continue tremists. President Reagan sent In February 1998, Clinton threat- Sikkim, the nine-point charter presents nothing new. A magic-formula Reagan’s policy of retaliating U.S. Marines to Beirut. ened to bomb Iraq, but called it off of seat reservation is promised, BL are assured, so are Limbus and against terrorism, but did not. With- In 1983, the U.S. Marine bar- when the United Nations said no. Tamangs and also the Nepalese who fall in the general category. No out Reagan to gin her up, even racks in Beirut were blown up by On Aug. 7, 1998, U.S. embas- specifics on these assurances will be met, except the one where the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Muslim extremists. sies in Kenya and Tanzania were party has promised to “vigorously pursue” the matter of how BL and went wobbly, saying there would be Reagan said the U.S. would not bombed by Muslim extremists. Sikkimese Nepalese identity were diluted with their no revenge for the bombing. compartmentalisation as tribals and general. The party, the mani- surrender, but Democrats threw a Clinton, advised by Dick In 1990, Saddam Hussein in- festo says, will do so in the light of assurances given in the Parlia- hissy fit, introducing a resolution Clarke, did nothing. vaded Kuwait. In early 1991, Bush ment by the Union Law Minister in 1980.