SHILLONG: Tennydard Marak, who is pursuing the ST status issue of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, has said that Meghalaya is passing through a very critical phase where the State Government has not only failed to protect the bona fide right of the indigenous people of Meghalaya more particularly, the Garos, but it had also tabled the controversial “anti -people” Bill, the Garo Hills Autonomous (Codification of the Garo Customary Laws) Bill, 2009.
In a letter addressed to the President on Thursday, Marak said that the Bill is hundred per cent against public policy, well being and interest of the indigenous Garo People of Meghalaya as it was placed in a hurried manner by the Congress-led Executive Committee in the GHADC during its session on July 23.
Seeking the imposition of President’s Rule in Meghalaya, Marak said that pending the writ petition in the Supreme Court on the ST status of Chief Minister, the move to pass the Bill is an attempt of forceful assimilation of non-Garo people into the Garo society.
