Adelbert opposes State law, threatens indefinite fast

SHILLONG: KHADC CEM Adelbert Nongrum has threatened to go for an indefinite hunger strike if the State Government fails to address his various demands within a period of ten days.
He issued this threat in memorandum which he submitted to State government on Tuesday.    Nongrum was accompanied by his mother, wife and daughter during the submission of the memorandum. “The State Government must immediately pass the Village Administration Bill. The Government must get assent of the Governor on the Bill at the earliest,” the CEM said in the memorandum.
He also opposed any move by the State Government to formulate a law pertaining to powers and functions of traditional heads “since it is a subject of the District Council”.
“Any attempt by the state Government to formulate law will be seen as an attempt to take away the constitutional rights of the Council,”   Nongrum said.
According to him, the Government should immediately put on hold enrolment of voters in the State till the Village Administration Bill is passed.
“If the Government fails to fulfill these three demands I will be left with no other option but to lay down my life by staging a fast-unto-death programme for which the State Government will be solely responsible,” the KHADC CEM said.