AND RAGHAV SAYS.............................

Shhhh
Everyone go pass by down the Tibet Road,
Not a single heart beats seeing us blushing brow,
We lay dead dumb no one to speak for us today.
Anyway
We would not stop counting our struggle day,
Hoping those innocent buds will bloom in this soil someday,
And shall there will be a rejoice greenday.

ssssh..
Tomorrow let them forget our fightings for their future,
what history is always repeating is true is true is true ...

-RAGHAV


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DAY 110

Over 5,000 people took part in a mass rally organised by members of the Indigenous Lepcha Tribal Association at Kalimpong yesterday to protest against upcoming hydroelectric power projects at Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim.

People from Nepali, Bhutia and Lepcha communities ad members of various social organisations took part in the rally that started from 10th Mile Fatak and culminated at Damber Chowk, a stretch of five kilometre."We will do whatever we can to stop setting up of hydel power projects at Dzongu," said Mr Lyangsong Tamsang, president of ILTA.

The Lepchas from Kailmpong and Darjeeling have already started hunger-strike to express their solidarity with members of the Affetted Citizens of Teesta who have launched a tirade against the Sikkim government over the issue.

The relay hunger-strike of the Lepchas has completed 108 days in Sikkim, 47 days in Kalimpong and 37 days in Darjeeling. Mr Dilip Kumar Pradhan, a member of Seva Kalyan Samiti, said: "Not only Lepchas, all people should oppose the Sikkim government's bid to disturb the sanctity of Dzongu." Those who participated in the rally included members of the Government Pensioners' Association, Seva Kalyan Samiti, All India Nepali Scheduled Caste Association, Kalimpong, Darjeeling Hill Muslim Association and Milanee Club.

Meanwhile, the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad, Somjibhai Damor, will arrive in Sikkim on Tuesday for a first-hand idea of the on-going Lepcha agitation against hydel power projects at Dzongu in North Sikkim.

“He will first go to Gangtok and then to Dzongu,” said Dorjee Lepcha, the president of Rong-Ong-Prongzum (Lepcha Youth Association).

The visit follows a presentation on Dzongu made by L.S. Tamsang, the president of Indigenous Lepcha Tribal Association, at the 14th National Conference of the All India Tribal Development Council in Jaipur, Rajasthan earlier this month.