Siliguri, Jan. 23 :    Siliguri, Jan. 23:  To keep the GNLF from renewing its demand for Gorkhaland, the Union home ministry has invited party chief and chairman of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council Subhas Ghising for talks on February 7. The meeting, to be held in New Delhi, will also be attended by the representatives of the West Bengal government. Ghising is scheduled to leave for the capital on February 5 accompanied by his executive councillors. 'We have received a letter from the home secretary to attend the tripartite meeting in Delhi to review matters relating to the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Accord,' hill council principal secretary Prasant said. He added: 'Apart from discussing more power for the council, the meeting is likely to take up its demand for inclusion of the Darjeeling hills area in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, which would confer 'tribal' status to areas under the council's purview. The schedule grants regional autonomy to tribal areas of the Northeast states.' Prasant said: 'Ghising had earlier written several letters to home minister Lal Krishna Advani seeking tripartite talks on granting Sixth Schedule status to the Darjeeling hill region following the Centre's move for the formation of three new states of Jharkhand, Uttaranchal and Chhattisgarh.' The demand for bringing the hill council areas under the Sixth Schedule was first raised by Ghising after the GNLF won a landslide victory in the March 1999 Council election, for the third consecutive time since the council was formed in 1988. Ghising was not available for comment. But a senior GNLF leader said: 'Though the state government initially opposed the demand on grounds of Darjeeling hills not having the required percentage of tribal population, it agreed 'in principle' to accept inclusion of the council areas through modification or amendment in the schedule in its 'volte-face' report submitted early last year.' The state government set up a high-powered committee in July 1999, headed by state urban development and municipal affairs minister Ashoke Bhattacharya, to review the Darjeeling accord and provide greater power to the council as demanded by the GNLF. After initial reservations the state government expressed its openness to the demand for Sixth Schedule status to the council areas, provided the Centre was agreeable and necessary amendments were made. 'We are seeking the inclusion of the hill areas through a Constitutional backup. Presently, the hill council, which was the outcome of a 28-month long Gorkhaland agitation culminating in the accord of 1988, has no constitutional safeguard,' a senior GNLF leader said. Frustrated with the Centre's long silence, Ghising had shown signs of renewing the agitation in August last year. Though the GNLF had assented to drop of the separate Gorkhaland demand in the accord, it has not given up the demand politically.