Inspired by the success of Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha has decided to launch a "massive" agitation for a separate Bundelkhand state.
"We had been with the TRS in its struggle for the separate Telangana state and we are happy that their long struggle have started bearing fruits and now we would go all out to launch a massive struggle for Bundelkhand state", BMM President Raja Bundela said on phone.
"The struggle for Bundelkhand has been going on for the past twenty years as people there have realised that the region cannot develop without separate statehood and now we will give it a fresh momentum," Bundela said, adding that as a first step a 300-km long march from Chitrakoot to Kamtanath in Madhya Pradesh would start from December 16.
There is also a growing realisation in Bundelkhand region that as their "peaceful agitations" have had no impact, drastic means are required to help in getting their demands fulfilled, Bundela said drawing similarities between Bundelkhand and Telangana, both being "provinces which had merged with the union on promise of separate statehood".
Meanwhile, in Darjeeling, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders have decided to sit on indefinite hunger strike to press for their demand for separate Gorkhaland state.PTI
