SHILLONG: The Garo Students’ union (GSU), East Zone, has sought the intervention of Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma to immediately revoke the order that makes it mandatory for beneficiaries to file affidavits declaring the family income to be able to claim post-matric and pre-matric scholarships.
The GSU stated that students would have to waste lot of time, money and energy to collect affidavits to avail the scholarships.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister through the Deputy Commissioner of East Garo Hills recently, the GSU have appealed to the former to immediately revoke the order.
MPCC takes a dig at KHNAM’s pro-ILP stand
SHILLONG: Taking a dig at KHNAM for supporting the implementation of the ILP in the State, the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) said that the problem of influx and illegal immigration can be addressed by other mechanisms and not only through the implementation of the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation of 1873 (ILP in simple terms).
According to the MPCC, the tactic adopted by the KHNAM in resorting to ’emotional populist politics’ is unnecessary since a more rational and logical approach was required to tackle the issue of influx.
Admitting that the ILP was highlighted in the election manifesto of the KHNAM, the MPCC said that people had outrightly rejected the party since it drew a blank in the Assembly election in the State in February. The MPCC pointed out that KHNAM had garnered less than 1 per cent of the total votes polled in the election, which is a clear indication that they do not have the political mandate to make the demand and that their narrow ideological appeal had been rebutted by the people of the State.
“The Congress party is transparent in its ideas and also serious and committed to tackle this issue which has already been demonstrated by the measures taken up by the State Government in the right earnest,” the MPCC said in a statement issued here on Monday.
The MPCC reposed full faith in the MUA-II Government and stated that the legal and constitutional mechanisms presently contemplated, structured and prepared by the Government will prove to be adequate to resolve the imbroglio.