JOWAI: The Dorbar Shnong, Mooksawan in its general meeting held on Wednesday decided to boycott the District Council Election in Jaintia Hills if the JHADC went ahead with the new delimitation bill which bifurcates the village into two parts.
Mookaswan village which has 333 voters was earlier under Nongbah-Mynso Constituency. With the new delimitation bill, the village was bifurcated in which a locality which has only 17 numbers of voters remain with Nangbah, while the rest of the village was attached to the new Mukhla-Wahiajer Constituency.
The Rangbah Shnong Bloin Shylla informed that the bifurcation of his village is not acceptable to the village dorbar. “We demanded that the District Council should rectify this and if they failed to do so, we will boycott the District Council Election”, Shylla said.
Kyndongtuber- another village in West Jaintia Hills was also affected by the delimitation as the village with the same headman was bifurcated. Earlier the village fell under Nangbah Nongjngi but as per the new Delimitation bill, half of the village was attached to new Nonjngi Constituency and half to Shangpung. Ialong Mulang (1830 votes), Ladmynkseh (17 votes) and Myrjai (326) were attached to Nangbah- a village which has six localities with 3716 numbers of voters. Ialong were delimited from Jowai North.