Politics / Meghalaya

GUWAHATI, June 18 ? The high-level meeting between Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and his Meghalaya counterpart, Dr FA Khonglam on the age-old boundary disputes today resolved to follow a three-tier strategy for a sustained effort to resolve the disputes besides deciding against setting up of police tickets/outposts in all ?areas of difference? on either sides of the inter-State boundary. The meeting which was held in a ?cordial atmosphere? for two hours in Assam Administrative Staff College here today, decided that there should be more frequent discussions on the boundary disputes among...

Imphal, June 17: The report in The Imphal Free Press about the selection of four tribes of Manipur in the new list of 43 tribes to be recognized as Scheduled Tribes under the Scheduled Tribe Order, 1950, has met with mixed response from different parties. An organization called the Kuki Tribes Recognition Demand Committee, while welcoming the inclusion of "Any Kuki Tribe" into the four selected for inclusion in the ST list, strongly objected to the list of tribes in the IFP which are reportedly annoyed with their non inclusion in the ST list as independent tribes. A memorandum by the...

SHILLONG, June 15 ? The Khasi Students? Union (KSU) yesterday formally launched a new regional party saying it needed to wield political power to achieve its avowed objective of protecting and promoting the interests of the ?Hynniewtrep? people which comprise the Khasi and Jaintia tribes. The new outfit entitled Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) will contest all the 36 Assembly seats in the districts of East and West Khasi Hills, Ri-Bhoi and Jaintia Hills, party president and former KSU chief Paul Lyngdoh told newsmen last evening. Explaining the reason for forming the new...

GUWAHATI, June 9 ? The obstruction put up by the Ri-Bhoi district administration and Meghalaya Police to the survey operations carried out by the Kamrup district administration in Pilingkata area has threatened to embitter the otherwise cordial relations between the Governments of Assam and Meghalaya.

According to Kamrup district administration sources here, one EAC from Ri-Bhoi district held pubic meetings in the localities Pilingkata and Moukhuli of Maidam village on the southern fringe of Guwahati city on June 6. The next day, when the Kamrup District Revenue officials went to the...

SHILLONG, May 29 ? Meghalaya and Assam governments have agreed to maintain status quo in disputed areas along the inter-State border, demarcation of which was long being demanded, to maintain peace and harmony on the two sides, top Meghalaya government official said on Wednesday, reports PTI. The decision was taken after Meghalaya Home Minister Lotsing Sangma spoke to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi following misunderstanding over the setting up of a border outpost by Meghalaya police near Khanduli village in Jayantia Hills district on Tuesday, Chief Secretary J Tayeng said. Official sources...

TURA, May 27 ? The NCP-led Executive Committee (EC) headed by Edmund K Sangma in the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) was dealt a severe blow when two of its new members withdrew support on the grounds that the EC was playing dirty politics by denying the new MDC from Kharkutta his rights as a member. The two MDCs, Hedrick A Sangma of Siju constituency in South Garo Hills and Lithindro D Sangma, withdrew their support alleging that the EC had deliberately and wrongfully distributed the work orders of the GHADC?s Rural Development Scheme allotted to the Kharkutta GHADC...

TURA, May 27? The Meghalaya Government is to seek the help of church leaders of Garo Hills to bring the banned ANVC to the negotiation table. Home Minister Lotsing A Sangma will shortly be meeting members of the A?chik Baptist Dalgipa Krima (ABDK), the powerful church body in Garo Hills, leaders of the Roman Catholic Demonstration and senior citizens of Tura to discuss ways in bringing the ANVC to the negotiating table. This was revealed by Sangma during his press conference at Rikman Continental hotel recently. Briefing members of the media the Home Minister said that the government was...

TURA, May 21 ? The last surviving Garo MLA of erstwhile Assam and former MLA of Meghalaya who actively participated in the Hill State Movement leading to the creation of a separate State of Meghalaya carved out of Assam, Grohonsingh A Marak, has called it a day, Marak, who was closely associated with the Garo National Council (GNC), tendered his resignations to the GNC president, Clifford Marak, on Wednesday citing ill-health ? having attained the age of 77 years he urged the GNC president to consider his resignation as he wanted to lead a retired life. Having served in the central...

SHILLONG, May 17? The Federation of Khasi States, apex body of 25 traditional chiefs in the Khasi Hills has rejected the recommendations of the Constitution Review Commission (CRC) providing for representation for the ?Syiems?, ?Myntris? and other traditional heads in the autonomous district councils (ADCs). The Steering Committee of the Federation, which met here yesterday, is of the opinion. ?If the recommendation of the CRC is implemented, it will undermine the traditional status of the Khasi ?rulers?.

A resolution adopted at the day-long meeting of the Steering Committee declared ?If...

SHILLONG, April 30: With the Assembly elections in Meghalaya a little more than nine months away, the Congress today received shot in the arm bagging the Kharkutta seat in the district council bye-election the result of which was announced this evening. The win was all the more satisfying for the Congress as it is playing second fiddle to the Nationalist Congress Party in State politics since the last Assembly polls.