By IANS,
Kolkata: Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Thursday said her party was opposed to the demand for a separate Gorkhaland and instead favoured economic and social development of the hill region in northern West Bengal.
Banerjee said the Trinamool Congress would convey its opinion on addressing the problems of the hill region to the cabinet committee of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) central government if asked to do so.
“Trinamool Congress does not want division of Bengal. But we want the economic and sociological problems of the hill areas to be addressed.
“If the central government asks for our opinion regarding the problem of the hills we will definitely convey it to them,” Banerjee told mediapersons here after a closed door meeting with state Congress leaders on West Bengal’s current political scenario.