As such, the Committee calls on all parties to come clean and work for the uplift of all segments of society, without regard to ethnicity, caste, creed, or gender. The Committee also calls on the various interests that are interfering with the work of building Uttarakhand, to stop playing games with people's lives and to unite in common purpose for the welfare of the people and health of the land. The Committee also wishes to express its despair over the lack of understanding of many of the politicians involved in this sordid drama. The true historical context to the battle over the Terai has been relegated to the rear, as issues such as culture and linguistic rights have been deceptively and cynically projected on the current impasse. By creating divisions, where none existed before, the process of carving up vote banks is destroying the fabric of the Indian nation and must stop.
Justice can only come by uniting the people, with fairness and honesty as the guiding principles.
Udam Singh Nagar was carved out of Nainital district in 1995, ostensibly to provide better representation to the people living there. However, as recent events have borne out, the true purpose behind the scheme has now been rendered crystal clear - to carve the Terai out of Uttarakhand altogether, thus affirming and sanctioning once and for all the complete usurpation of the land from its original inhabitants. Indeed, the real issue of the Terai is the issue of land. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, at the invitation of various state governments, migrants from other parts of India settled the region of Nainital district now included in the purview of Udam Singh Nagar. The land rush was accompanied by mass expropriations and the wholesale clearing of lush forest.