99-yr-old former GHADC CEM dies

TURA, Aug 13: One of the last remaining members of the Hill State Movement and former Chief Executive Member of the GHADC, Binsing R Marak, has passed away in Tura Civil Hospital due to Covid-19 on Thursday night. He was just two months away from celebrating his 100th birthday.
The nonagenarian, fondly known in Garo Hills as Naglangpa, was an MDC for 26 long years. He was also elected to the top post of CEM in GHADC on two occasions. Born in the remote Silkigre village of Chokpot on 31st October 1922, Late Binsing R Marak actively took part in the second world war as sector commander of the Garo Porter Corps for the allied forces in then Burma (Myanmar) during the Japanese invasion from 1942 to 1945. He was also a warden of the Tura district jail and served as a government school teacher.
An active Garo National Council member, he first became an MDC from Babelapara in 1957 and looked after various departments as executive member till 1983.
He was also elected Deputy CEM and ultimately CEM of the GHADC on two occasions in his chequered political career.