A day after Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling expressed his support for a separate Gorkhaland, the Bengal government wrote a five-page letter to the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
The letter urged the Centre to take necessary steps to stop other states from interfering in the "internal matters of the state government".
In the letter, the state government has stated that the intervention of the Sikkim government in this matter is unexpected. It is an internal matter of the state and any other state/s shouldn't interfere, as mentioned in the letter.
Seeking immediate intervention of the Centre in the issue, it has been mentioned in the letter that a Chief Minister of a state should not make such a statement about his/her counterpart under the constitutional framework. "We consider this to be flouting of constitutional right."
Apprehension of fresh trouble in Darjeeling due to such statements of the Sikkim Chief Minister has also been raised in the letter.
The state government had hinted on Thursday that a letter will be sent to the Centre protesting against the move of Chamling who wrote to the Union Home Minister on June 20 in support of formation of Gorkhaland after raising the issue of frequent disturbance in the Hills.Partha Chatterjee, the state Parliamentary Affairs
minister, said on Friday: "Interest of people is not related to the agitation that is going on in the Hills.
They are not the voice of the people. Common people of the Hills will go against them as the unrest is creating trouble for them and they are facing unnecessary harassment."
It may be recalled that Goutam Deb, the state Tourism minister, had also criticised the move of the Chief Minister of Sikkim.
On Friday, while inaugurating a three-day long tourism fair, Sadhan Pandey, the state Consumer Affairs minister, said: "Sikkim is purposely doing all this. This might instigate fresh trouble."
He further said that the trouble in the Hills is being created purposely at a time when the state government has ordered an special audit after allegations of misappropriation of funds by the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) was raised.