SHILLONG: Indirectly disagreeing with the proposal for the introduction of a modified ILP in Meghalaya as suggested by the 13 pressure groups, HSPDP vice president Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit said on Thursday that his party had not changed its stand as it was still sticking to its demand for implementation of the ILP regime as per the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.
While asserting that the Government should implement the ILP system in its original form, he said that there should not be a problem in implementing it since Section 2 of the regulation empowered the State government to implement the law on its own.
Stating that genuine non-tribals would not be harassed if the law in its original form was implemented, he said that Section 4 of the regulation authorized the Government to formulate rules depending to the local situation.
He said that it was yet to be seen whether the State Government would be able to implement the proposed modified ILP.
“I do not see much difference between the original and the modified ILP. In the original ILP we have check gates to verify the antecedents of the people who enter the State while in the modified ILP, we have the spot verification,” the HSPDP vice president said.
