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GANGTOK, 17 June: TheChief Minister PawanChamling today made a cour-tesy call on the United Pro-gressive Alliance chairpersonand Indian National Congresspresident, Sonia Gandhi at herresidence at New Delhi.

Speaking to NOW! over thephone, press advisor to the CM,BB Gooroong, disclosed that dur-ing the half-hour long afternoon

meeting, the CM congratulatedMrs. Gandhi on the formation ofthe UPA government at the Cen-tre and reiterated his party’s “un-conditional” support to theAlliance.

“The Chief Minister alsobriefed Mrs. Gandhi on Sikkim’sbackground as a part of India andthe democratic process which hasseen the return of the SDF gov-ernment for a third time in Sikkim,”Mr. Gooroong informs.

The press advisor further

added that the CM assured theUPA chairperson that his govern-ment was “working assiduously”towards the emotional integrationof the people of Sikkim in the na-tional mainstream and all rounddevelopment of the State.

During the course of the meet-ing, Mr. Chamling also briefedMrs. Gandhi on the contents ofthe memorandum submitted to thePrime Minister a couple of daysback and expressed hope that shewould help in extracting a posi-tive response on behalf of Sikkim

from the Centre.Mrs. Gandhi, while assuring a

positive response to the Stategovernment’s political and eco-nomic demands, also promisedthat the Centre, after an in-depthanalysis of trade over Nathula, willtake into account Sikkim’s inter-ests before taking a final decisionon the same.

At the meeting, Mr. Chamlingalso invited Mrs. Gandhi to visitSikkim to which she is reported tohave responded positively andagreed to do so at a suitable time.

CMcalls onSoniaIT’S HEM LALL’S TURN

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“Truth is bitter”a NOW REPORT

GANGTOK, 17 June: “Truth isbitter,” says former legal cell in-charge of the Sikkim PradeshCongress Committee [I], Hem LallBhandari, while trying to figureout why the 30-page report hesubmitted to the party presidentalong with his resignation fromthe post were never made public.

Speaking to NOW! at hisRumtek residence, the Harvard-educated advocate, who was ex-pelled from the party along withfour others on 11 June for his al-leged role in the rejection of threecandidates from South Sikkim andthe non-filing of nomination pa-pers by a candidate in NorthSikkim, says that his report on the“bungle” explains in “great detail”how he cannot be held account-able for the loss of four constitu-encies even before the State wentto polls.

“I start the report with a callon the party president that it isbeing tabled to him for further dis-semination to the party leadersand through them to the public,”Mr. Bhandari said.

“I would like to question the

party president why the reporthas not been tabled before thepeople yet,” he asks.

Interestingly, the report, pre-pared by Mr. Bhandari on 14 and15 June almost did not reach theSPCC [I] president. Mailed byspeed-post to his Ranipool ad-dress, the report was not acceptedon seven occasions, Mr. Bhandarireveals, before it was redirectedto the Congress Bhavan. SPCC [I]leaders admit that they have re-ceived the report although theydo not attach much importance toit. This is ironic because the re-port is perhaps the only one whichgoes into the intricate details ofthe four losses [ahead of elec-tions] which the party has identi-fied as one of the reasons prompt-ing its poll debacle.

Speaking to NOW!, the formerLegal Advisor to the State Con-gress stressed that he was re-sponsible for preparing the nomi-nation papers only. “Form-B,which was found blank in the caseof the three South Sikkim candi-dates leading to the rejection oftheir candidatures, is the respon-sibility of the party and the partypresident,” he said while adding

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that no mistakes were found in thenomination papers.

“What were the party presi-dent and the several vice-presi-dents and working president do-

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Now, Cong working committeeendorses expulsions

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NOW!FIRST WITH THE NEWS

ED-SPACE

by PB CHAKRABARTY

From time to time sightings or landings of flying saucers or UFOs [Unidentified Flying Objects] in West Eu-

rope, South America, the USA, Australiaand in Canada were reported by observersin newspapers. Some reports were indeedstrange and sensational. Ray Stanford, anexpert US Ufologist has been involved inUFO research for over 30 years and hasreceived extensive recognition for major in-novations in scientific Ufology. For manyyears he was the pioneer of instrumentedUFO research and his efforts have inspiredresearchers around the world to pursue thisnew field to gather data on UFOs. Since1972, he has been Director of Project Star-light International which is the world’s onlyfull-time scientific project employing abroad array of scientific instruments forUFO hard-data monitoring and recording.Among Stanford’s collection of interestingUFO sightings, the landing of a UFO onApril 24, 1964 reported at Socorro in NewMexico, USA, witnessed by policemanLonnie Zamora and an unidentified tourist,was the most fascinating event in UFO land-ings on earth. But this is a recent UFO inci-dent among many similar events. Let us goback to the dim past to recall a UFO land-ing on Chinese territorial waters.

More than 177 years ago, somewherenear Hainan island off the Southern Coast

of China, a strange and eerily bright uni-dentified flying object appeared out of thesky and landed on the bosom of SouthChina Sea. There it stayed for 12 days and12 nights, before disappearing as mysteri-ously as it appeared. Had such an eventhappened in modern times, it could easilyhave been investigated, photographed andperhaps ex-plained. But thisparticular sight-ing was recordedby a Chinese ob-server namedWen Jia duringthe Jin dynasty[265-420 AD].According to ancient Chinese classics,similar events, namely observations of Uni-dentified Flying Objects were recordedduring the Sung Dynasty [960-1280 AD].Sung philosopher Shen Kuo wrote of mys-terious unidentified flying objects in hisfamous book, “Meng Xi Bi Tan”. If we care-fully run through ancient Chinese histori-cal texts, we would probably come acrossmore reports of UFO landings on earth.

For a brief span of time during the greatproletarian Cultural Revolution in China,

UFO reportings were absolutely banned inChina. During this critical political upheaval,the Chinese people were directed to thinkof UFO sightings as a phenomenon hav-ing origin in foreign countries. The Chinesemay well have witnessed UFOs over China,but until barely 20 years ago, no Chinesewould have dared discuss it publicly or

even privately.Even after the lift-ing of the officialtaboo, somenewspapers andpublications inChina cautiouslymentioned UFOsbut the

reportings were but a rehash of very old“news items” such as – how a man namedArnold came across a flying saucer onMount Rainier in Washington, USA in 1947,or how a Brazilian soldier once vanished,being carried away by a UFO and reap-peared on earth 15 minutes later with a beardtwo inches longer! One or two similarreportings on UFOs will be interesting tothe readers. In October 1954 near Corbigny,in France, a salesman and his friend experi-enced a sudden failure of their motor car

engine and headlights. They felt an electri-cal sensation in their bodies and then ob-served a cigar-shaped UFO about 150 feetaway, off the road. They saw three smallhumanoids too nearby. The two observersfound themselves unable to move until theUFO with its occupants vanished.

In November, 1954 in Isola, northernItaly, a farmer saw a brilliant ellipsoidal UFOthat landed near him. The farmer hid him-self and watched. Three small “humanoids”in metallic-looking space suits emergedfrom the space-craft and gazed at the farm-er’s rabbits in the cage, while talking tothemselves in a strange language, unintel-ligible to the farmer. Reasoning that the lit-tle humanoids planned to steal his rabbits,he moved away to get his rifle. Returningsoon he aimed at the humanoid but in-stantly his rifle failed to function and it be-came so heavy that he dropped it. He wasunable to move or speak, while the ‘hu-manoids” made off with his rabbits andboarded the UFO which vanished leavinga bright trail behind. These tales are as mys-terious and uncanny as those of “The Ara-bian Nights.”

part-2 tomorrow

The reactions to Chukha’selection bribery scandalwas understandably var-

ied but there is much to be learnedfrom it. The verdict of the judici-ary was, in fact, meant to be abroader lesson to the populationand not a mere court case.

Most of us are quick to con-demn such corrupt practices butthe verdict came as a bit of ashock anyway. The reason, inter-estingly enough, was that no-body expected that it would betaken that seriously. This mightimply the extent to which suchpractices had been accepted.

Another interesting opinionwas that Chukha - or some peo-ple in Chukha anyway - hadbrought the problem on to them-selves. This referred to the re-peated practice of bribery that hasbeen allegedly taking place inChukha but some people alsomeant that the Chukha DYT mem-bers had themselves made it anissue and thus got caught. Thisimplies that it is happening else-where but it is sometimes coveredup to save the “face” of thedzongkhag.

But the conclusion around thecountry is that people will nowpay heed. Bribery, and corruptionas a whole, will not be tolerated.Most of us agreed with this strongmessage and most of us agreedthat it had to be conveyed.

The incident has causedmuch embarrassment to many resi-dents of Chukha – although somesay they were glad it happened –but we know that the court ver-dict was driven by the need for

UFOs OVER RED CHINA

symbolic action at a time when weare seeing discomforting trendsemerging in our changing elec-toral system. In some ways, theDYT members of Chukha are pi-lot cases in this necessary step.People even express some sym-pathy for the recipient of the mostharsh penalty, Karma Dorji who,whatever the compulsion, brokeopen the case and thus brought alevel of justice we have not seen

in other dzongkhags.The unasked question, of

course, is that we have imprisoned16 people but how many guiltypeople have gone unpunishedand how many more will continueto escape the clutches of the law?Electoral bribery is not a practiceexclusive to Chukha. We haveseen more than one suspectedcase even in Thimphu.

Many of us were forced thisweek to ask ourselves uncomfort-able questions. How many civilservants, corporate employees,business people, or farmers canclaim to be completely innocentof corruption? Those who areconvicted in any white-collarcrime case will, understandablybut not justifiably, point fingersto greater problems that are notdealt with.

After all, there is one sad truth.The big fish tend to get away.

But the government has takena tough step in the right directionand we stand to gain from it in the

long run. Dzongkhag authoritiesall share the view that this clearstand will make future electionsfar easier to coordinate, in theshort-term future anyway.

Some observers, even inThimphu, worry that the transpar-ency with which the governmenthas dealt with the situation iswashing our dirty linen in public.In other words, we might be pre-senting a negative image to the

international community thatincludes our development part-ners.

This view could not bemore wrong. We know that the

international community meanscountries that face the same prob-lems. In some of them such prac-tices are so ingrained that theyare not even seen as a problem.We can rest assured that the ac-tion Bhutan has taken will be ad-mired by many as a step whichthey have not been able to take.

But, in the end, it is not theimage that we are concernedabout. It is the reality in the sys-tem. If our elected representatives,our leaders, can sell their votesfor a few thousand Ngultrums,what does it say about our elec-torate? On the eve of major politi-cal change what does it say aboutour future?

That is why the wide-spreadrelief that we are ready to nip theproblem in the bud. And also thehope that we are ready to go evenfurther to safeguard an evolvingpolitical system that representsthe long-term vision of our wellmeaning Monarch.

- courtesy: Kuensel

lsewhereeBHUTAN

It’s For Real

Harm ReductionThe latest initiative of the State AIDS Control Society to impedeHIV’s march into Sikkim comes in the form of a needle-exchangeprogramme for intravenous drug users. The programme is sim-ple, those working against the spread of AIDS have realised thataddicts, their minds enslavened to the drug of their choice, areunlikely to be hygienic and safe in the pursuit of their addiction.Most times, they end up sharing and reusing syringes. Shouldthey have an HIV+ve in their circle, the virus will transmit andinfect not only them, but also others they come in intimate contactwith. Since the battle against AIDS is more about prevention thancure, this is the right way to protect a high-risk segment.Of course, there will be those who will immediately see this ini-tiative as one that promotes drug abuse by providing free sy-ringes to addicts. These would be the same people who screwup their noses when AIDS awareness workers enter schoolswith messages of safe sex. This group would rather promoteabstinence. Similarly, in the present case, they would rather thatthere was no drug abuse. They are not completely wrong. Notcompletely right either. They approach the problem of AIDS en-cumbered with their prejudices of morality and propriety. Theproblem is much bigger than that and as far as the West isconcerned it has grown out of its initial homophobia at least asfar as AIDS awareness is concerned. We have to admit that thereare many intravenous drug users in Sikkim. While we wouldwant to wish the problem away, it exists. All we can do is make itsafer. An addict can be rehabilitated, but the odds are stacked toohigh against an AIDS patient. Same is the case with sexual dalli-ances among the teens. It would be medically and psychologi-cally better for them if they delayed their initiation into sex till theycan make a more mature decision. But they don’t. They startexperimenting early and are thus at risk.The battle against AIDS is more about effective intervention. Its mo-rality of protecting people against an incurable disease ranks muchhigher that other quotients like the ones discussed above. It is im-portant that the AIDS awareness workers identify a high-risk groupand then intervene and make them safe. Curing them comes in thenext phase. The latest initiative is also welcome because if it suc-ceeds, it will make substance abusers accessible. Increased polic-ing has pushed them into hiding and rehabilitation counsellors arefinding it difficult to approach them. The drop-in centres could alsodouble as locations for the first counselling to win as many back intonormalcy as possible from the spell of drugs.

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GANGTOK, 17 June: It’s beenparty time ever since the visitingdisc jockey duo of Jazzy Joe andDJ Nebiu landed in the capital.Gangtokians have been treated toa rare extravagance of their skills,first at Blues on Tuesday nightand then at Time-Out last night.The grand finale was held at Lit-tle Italy, where the DJs have prom-ised to create some heady stuffwith their “Beats and Roots” per-formance.

DJ Jazzy Joe, branded as In-dia’s finest and the capital Del-hi’s hottest is accompanied byNebiu, a guest DJ from Africa whohas been playing with Joe forthree years now.

On their first night out at theBlues, Gangtokians gyrated to theHigh energy club house groovemusic along with a mix of reggae,

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GANGTOK, 17 June: ShriJagannath Sanskrutika Samiti willbe organizing the auspicious“Rath Yatra” of Lord Jagannathon Saturday, 19 June, here.

The Rath Yatra will start at 4pm from the Tourism Office, passthrough MG Marg, New Marketand will end at Titanic Park atabout 6 pm. Chief Justice RK Patraand Gangtok MLA, NK Pradhanwill grace the occasion as the chiefguests, it is learnt.

The Rath Yatra, which is a replicaof the massive Rath Yatra atJagannath, Puri, Orissa, was first heldin Sikkim in 1984 and since then, everyyear, devotees have been organizingand participating in this event.

The Rath which carries theidols of Lord Jagannath, LordBarabadhara and GoddessSubadhara that symbolizes twobrothers and one sister has beenused for the last 20 years.

“We renovate the Rath everyyear. It takes us four days to colour

dub, hip hop, trance, beats androots and Indipop to a packed andfrenzied crowd. The next eveningat Time-Out, they rocked thehouse with some great hip hop.

“We are so glad the Gangtoktour happened. We just love thisplace and it’s all thanks to our

friend Karma Zimba of Little Italy.Without Zimba we would havemissed out on a chance of visit-ing and performing in this beauti-ful part of the country,” said DJJazzy Joe, speaking to NOW!

Adds Zimba, “I have knownJazzy for the past many years andI’m glad he’s finally here. If musicbe the heart beat of the universe,surely dance is inviting the goodspirits to visit you and Jazzy isthe invoker of all the good spir-its”. Well said, Zimba, well said!

[above] DJs Nebui and Jazzy Joewith their friend and Gangtokshows organiser, Karma Zimbaof Little Italy.[left] DJ Nebiu spins his magicat Blues

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and decorate the Rath,” informsNityanand Rawat, of the Samiti.

After the yatra is completed,the Rath is dismantled and storedfor the coming year. The statuesare kept at Thakurbari Mandir and

are put up for display during theYatra. As always, this year too theorganizers are expecting a sub-stantial turnout for the Rath Yatrawhich is participated in byGangtokians of all communities.

The Rath prepares for its Yatra

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GANGTOK, 17 June: Followingthe announcement by the Uniongovernment to hike petrol and die-sel prices, the price of petrol in thestate has gone up to Rs. 35.55 perlitre costing Rs. 2.05 more than theearlier cost of Rs. 33.50. Diesel nowcosts Rs. 22.95 as opposed to Rs.21.90 that it cost earlier. The newrates came into effect from 1.30 pmon Wednesday, 16 June.

The rise in prices had an im-mediate fall-out with taxi driversin the State and particularly inGangtok demanding a corre-sponding increase in taxi fares.

Says Phurba Tamang, a taxidriver, “We will definitely have toincrease taxi fares, otherwise it willbecome difficult to even survive.”

Commuters, as usual have tobear the brunt of this rise. “Even aminor rise in taxi fare will be toomuch for us daily commuters,” feelsRadha Pradhan, who takes a sharedtaxi every day to and from office.

On Wednesday itself commutersall over were being asked for morefare. A lady was charged twice thenormal fare and the only responseshe got from the driver was, “This ishow it is going to be from now on.”

Taxi drivers, however, havebeen clamoring for a rise in faresfor quite sometime now and theMotor Vehicles department maysoon give in to their demands.

According to P. Tiwari, Addi-tional Secretary, Transport Depart-ment [Motor Vehicle Division], meet-ings will be held soon with taxi driv-er’s associations and fares hiked.

“For sometime now petrol anddiesel prices are seeing frequenthikes, but the taxi fares were leftuntouched. This time we will haveto revise the fares keeping in mindthe latest hike.”

Refusing to be specific onwhat the cost to the commuterwould be, he said that it woulddepend on various factors.

Meanwhile, many taxi drivershave started asking for more even

if there has been no official deci-sion taken by the department yet.Many were heard talking aboutthe need to lodge stronger protestsif the department refused their de-mands for an immediate hike.

In the meanwhile, the Price ofLPG has increased by Rs. 16 inSikkim. It will now cost Rs. 286instead of Rs. 270 it did earlier.

PETROL FOR NOW, TAXI FARES NEXT

Now, Cong working committeeendorses expulsions

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GANGTOK, 17 June: Barely twodays after SPCC [I] general Sec-retary, Jigme N. Kazi, clarified thaton 11 June, Congress and its sup-porters had only resolved to ex-pel the five leaders much in newsof late and not actually expelledthem and that the process wouldbe conducted democratically, hiscolleague and party vice-presi-dent, PR Subba, today revealedthat the party working committee,which met today under the chair-manship of its president, NarBahadur Bhandari, endorsed the11 June “decision of the people”supporting expulsion as the “fi-nal decision” of the party.

Another important decision

taken at today’s Congress work-ing committee meeting was to filean election petition challengingthe recently concluded simulta-neous polls in Sikkim which leftthe party with only one MLA inthe 32-member State LegislativeAssembly.

The party, it may be recalledhas levelled several allegationson the election process in Sikkimthis year. From casting aspersionson the performance of EVMs toalleging misuse of State machin-ery and involvement of the Stateadministration in the poll cam-paign of the ruling party and ex-cessive use of money and musclepower by the SDF, the Congresshad rounded off the reasons forits poll debacle with the five ex-

pelled leaders, who it alleges col-luded with the ruling party toweaken Congress in the State.

The State Congress, informsthe press release issued by Mr.Subba, has also decided to set upa Complaint Cell at its Develop-ment Area office under the chair-manship of Santosh Bardewa.This Cell, it is learnt, will recordall complaints of victimisationagainst the ruling party and thentake the required legal action onthem.

Today’s meeting also ex-tended support to the contractors’association opened by its con-tractor members. This associationis headed by Anil Lachenpa aspresident with Arun Rai as Vice-President.

DARJ BUSDRIVERS TO GO

ON STRIKE ON 22JUNE

DARJEELING, 17 June: TheParvatiya Bus Karmachari Union[PBKU] has given a call for a 24hour bus strike in the Darjeelingsub-division on 22 June, 2004.

“This is in pursuance of ourdemand for the quick repairs ofthe National Highway 55, the life-line of the hills,” said Nim TsheringBhutia, General Secretary.

Incidentally the NationalHighway 55, also called the HillCart Road, is a 77 km stretch fromthe Darjeeling More in Siliguri tothe Bus Stand in Darjeeling.

“It is impossible to drive onthis stretch. The ride up fromSiliguri on NH55 is so nightmar-ish that the tourists go back witha very bad impression of theplace,” said Bhutia.

He also complained of waterlogging and dangerous pot holes.

“There are more pot holes fromthe stretch from Dali to Darjeelingthan there are craters on themoon,” mused Bhutia.

Repair work was going on butit was a mere eyewash and wasgoing on at snail’s pace, he al-leged further.

He also complained that nonumber of petitions and memo-randums in the past yielded anyresults and hence they decidedto go on a strike.

“If nothing concrete happenswe will embark on a more severeagitations” stated Bhutia.

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NAMCHI, 17 June: A three-daysummer school camp concludedhere at lower Kitamb yesterday.The summer camp also doubledas a workshop for students andclub members to engage them-selves in creative activities dur-ing the holidays.

Different topics were dis-cussed such as personality devel-opment, team work, women’s em-powerment, education, social is-sues, participatory learning andresponsibility of students etc.

The camp was formally inaugu-rated by Puran Chettri, District Co-ordinator, Nehru Yuva Kendra,

Namchi. He urged the youth andstudents to come forward to createa new world and environment ofintensive development. He alsourged them to protect the culturalheritage of the state.

He suggested a 6 to 10 mem-ber team comprising of NYK mem-bers be formed to participate inthe national level youth camp tobe held in Haryana.

The summer camp was alsopartaken by members of a chil-dren’s club called Navlo Prabhat.There were 35 beneficiaries be-sides the villagers who attendedthe camp.

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tween the parents and wardswhich could go a long way in af-fecting a higher spirit of mutualunderstanding between the two inorder to bridge the generation gap.

Different creative games in-cluding music, morning prayers,yoga and meditation etc formedpart of the camp’s activities. Lec-tures were also delivered by re-source persons. The theme of thecamp was to create amongst theyouth a sense of team spirit as wellas to bridge the generation gap.The participating teams were pro-vided with attractive trophies. Aplantation drive was also under-taken with silver oaks, teak and nonflowering plants being planted.

discussed in detail with ASCI andOfficers of Power Finance Corpo-ration [PFC] which has funded thedetailed studies on Sikkim’sPower sector and prepare guide-lines together with implementa-tion of the reformation in the State.

The restructuring of powersector aims at segregating the ac-tivities of generation, transmis-sion and distribution as three hori-zontally placed Strategic Busi-ness Units [SBU] to bring aboutaccessibility and transparencyamong these units under one cor-poration wholly owned by thestate Government.

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ing, if not checking whether theForm A’s and Form B’s were prop-erly filled out,” he counters.

The party candidates, exceptseven [whom Mr. Bhandarirefuses to name], were “not at allbothered” with the filing of nomi-nation process, Mr. Bhandari al-leges while adding that even theparty president had forgotten tosign one of the affidavits. “Thisis how serious the candidate’swere. I did not fill any Form B ex-cept the Lok Sabha candidatesbecause he requested me to. Theresponsibility of the rest of theForm B’s was given to anotheradvocate engaged by the partypresident,” Mr. Bhandari informs.

Mr. Bhandari also questionswhy action against him is beingtaken now. “The South rejectionsand Pende’s non-filing of nomi-nation papers happened beforethe elections. If I was responsi-ble, why was action not taken

against me earlier,” he asks.He has also criticised the manner

in which the 11 June expulsions werecarried out and has also dismissedthe party’s claim that the EVMscaused Congress’ defeat in Sikkim.

“Our party’s campaign strategywas all wrong. Everyone was toocasual. As for the EVM’s, Mr.Bhandari’s message accepting thepeople’s verdict was broadcast onthe day of the counting itself andthe next day he turned around andblamed the EVMs. No one else israising a finger against EVMs any-where else in India. It is a humaninvention proved right,” he said.

Mr. Bhandari, who is dividinghis time between Gangtok andRumtek at present, also revealedthat he was attacked by his ownparty workers twice.

“These people have been led tobelieve that I caused the four lossesand have been instigated to attack-ing me. My report explains clearlywhat really happened. It should bemade public,” he concluded.

Contd from pg 1

“Truth is bitter” Trial after executionorder: Namgyal

GANGTOK, 17 June: Seva DalChairman, Chewang Namgyal, wholearnt on 11 June that he had been“expelled” from the SPCC [I] onlyto be told later [through news-re-ports] that only a resolution for ex-pulsion had been passed, hasmocked the whole move with thewords: “They [Cong leaders in-volved in the issue] are now tryingto hold a trial after having passedthe execution order.” “This confu-sion is indicative of how patheticthe situation has become in ourparty,” he said while adding that itwas “unfortunate that a nationalparty was being run in such a man-ner in Sikkim.” Maintaining that theparty president had violated theparty constitution by conductingthe 11 June “bungle,” Mr. Namgyalreiterated his call for Mr. Bhandari’sremoval from the post.

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The group of ten children be-longing to the Indo-Tibet Bud-dhist Cultural Institute [ITBCI]visited France to participate in theinternational children’s meet titledthe “Carrefour International duTheatre d’Enfants” hosted inValenciennes in France. [along-side pix]

The meet was held from 15 to31May. Children of other Euro-pean and American countries alsoattended the festival which wasorganized by the Jeune TheatreInternational, a professional thea-tre company. The festival wasnon-commercial and all expenseswere looked after by the theatrecompany.

“The week-long stay was areal adventure for the kids,” saysJK Dharsap-Principal.

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The students of the ITBCIwere there especially to presentTibetan culture and tradition.They did so via the various cul-tural dances and folk songs.

Kesang Lepcha [13], whowas among the ten children vis-iting France and is full of excite-ment from his tour to the fash-ion capital says: “The tour wasreally exciting and was appreci-ated by many. It was a real learn-ing process”.

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GANGTOK, 17 June: The stateunit of the BJP has welcomed thedeclaration of the “zero enemy”policy of the SDF government an-nounced by the ruling party afterthe elections. The BJP says itwelcomes this move and sees itas a positive sign of democracy.

SDF condemnsvandalism

GANGTOK, June 17: The rulingSikkim Democratic Front hasstrongly condemned the act of van-dalism directed against SPCC [I]general secretary Jigme N. Kazi,whose vehicle was set on fire onthe night of 14 June. In a press re-lease, the party today said that SDFwill not tolerate such acts of intimi-dation in the future. While extend-ing its reassurances to Mr. Kazi, theparty has hinted the incident couldbe the result of intra-party feudwithin the State Congress.

The press release also informsthat the BJP, had, on October, 2003,asked the Chief Secretary for infor-mation on BPLs and APLs in the state.

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The state-unit of BJP, whichheld its meeting on 11 June, hasadvised the government that nofamilies be deprived of the ben-efits of being categorized as BPLas long as they hold the BPL card.

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GANGTOK, 17 June: In the firstinitiative of its kind, the Sikkim Re-habilitation and De-ToxificationCentre [SRDC] held an AdvocacyMeeting on “Harm Reduction” on15 June at Nepali Sahitya ParishadBhawan, Development Area here.The main focus of the meetingwas to evolve ways to fight drugabuse and HIV/AIDS related is-sues. It was proposed that withthe rising number of substanceabusers in the state sharing nee-dles and thus increasing the riskof spreading HIV/AIDS, a pro-gramme on Harm Reduction forthe state was necessary.

In the field of public health, “HarmReduction” is used to describe a con-cept aiming to prevent or reduce nega-tive health consequences associatedwith certain behaviours in relation todrug injecting.

“HIV prevalence is rising rap-idly among Intravenous DrugUsers and these IDUs spread HIVto their sexual partners, childrenand the community. Thus harmreduction carries significant HIVpreventive potential,” said PhurbaYolmo of SRDC.

Only recently SRDC in col-laboration with the State AIDSControl Society had started thefirst needle-exchange programmein the state. The drop-in centre islocated at Baluwakhani and is

open all days except Sundays.Here, substance abusers can ex-change used needles for new orsterile ones. While some may ar-gue that the needle exchange pro-gram may in fact help drug abus-ers even further, doctors arguethat in fact it could well work theother way round.

“It is not that the drop-in-cen-tres will indiscriminately dole outnew syringes for them to inject.These centres will also become aplace to have access to the ad-dicts, there will be a counsellor whowill try to use the opportunity tohelp them in other ways. But if allfails let us at least help them to liveand let others live,” says Dr. ILSharma, Psychiatrist, STNM.

Harm reduction through nee-dle-exchange programs may becontroversial but is also a realis-tic acceptance of the fact that we

have not been able to reduce drugaddiction in the state at all.

“We should get realistic aboutour goals. The danger of variousinfections spreading through ad-dicts who share needles is seri-ous. If you can’t control drugs, atleast protect other people frominfections before it becomes amulti-burden on the society,”feels Dr. Namgyal Sherpa, Con-sultant, Medicine, STNM.

According to Dr. YogeshVerma, it is equally important toprotect the rights of the IDUs,“These rights are already framedbut the important thing will be tosee to what extent it can be ap-plicable and to ensure thatstigma and discrimination is re-moved,” he said

Needle Exchange Program launchedto combat AIDS in Sikkim

Dr. RL Sharma speaks at the “harm reduction” advocacy meeting organised by the SRDC

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