Headmen issue
SHILLONG: The UDP on Sunday said that the party’s stand has been vindicated after the recent Supreme Court order concerning the traditional Institutions.
The General Secretary of United Democratic Party, Allantry Franklin Dkhar in a statement issued to the media that it was the party that had suggested to the government that it should only play a supportive role by enacting ancillary laws which will be incorporated in the Village Administration Law, that will empower the traditional institutions to be legally part of the government delivery system.
” The government has committed a big blunder by being insensitive to the cause of the indigenous people which resulted in the Dorbar Bah, an unrest that could have been avoided if the government had appealed against the High Court order”, the UDP leader said.
However the party felt that traditional institutions being the exclusive subject of the ADCs, in accordance with the VIth Schedule to the Constitution, any law concerning their powers and functions should be legislated by the ADCs, not by any other authority.