‘Sikkim CM must not interfere’

A day after Sikkim CM Pawan Kumar Chamling expressed full support to the cause of a separate state of Gorkhaland, the Mamata Banerjee government wrote to Union home minister Rajnath Singh condemning Chamling’s move.

In the absence of CM Banerjee, who is on a tour tour to the Netherlands, education minister and TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee wrote to the Centre saying that Sikkim CM had no business interfering in West Bengal’s matters.

“In the letter Chatterjee pointed out that the action of Sikkim CM was against the federal structure of the country, where a particular state government cannot interfere in the internal matters of another state,” said a state cabinet member aware of the contents of the letter. HTC