SHILLONG: A meeting led by Khasi women held during the busy afternoon hours at Mawkhar point has demanded the Citizenship Amendment Act to be scrapped and call for implementation of Inner Line Permit (ILP).
President of STIEH, Deiwi Tongper said it is time for women to come out in the forefront and take up the mantle to protect and safeguard the community and to not only leave the matter to the males of the community. She said, “All of us have the responsibility to protect our community and there will be peaceful protest against the Centre. We are not against Hindus and Muslims but we are against foreigners, for us a foreigner is a foreigner”.
She added, “There is not a single act to protect us. The message to the Prime Minister is this that we are not giving our land so easily, we will shed our blood but will not give our land so easily”.
Tongper urged the Union government to listen to the voice of the North eastern people and said that along with the rest of the region, the women want CAA to be scrapped and implement ILP and called upon the need to be united as an indigenous community.
