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HOP STEP AND JUMP

The Khasi lineage bill of the District Council is seen to be not running smooth, as it is jumping from one point to another, also stepping into uncertain territory and jumping into a conclusion, that the District Council itself, had recalled the bill, because of the many loopholes and contradictions. In the first place the bill was sent to the Governor for approval, without consulting legal experts especially of the lapses and contradictions, which goes against the spirit of the bill itself and its attempts to override, well established traditional laws and usages. These lapses had therefore prompted the District Council to hurriedly recall the bill from the Governor.

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CENSOR ON CM SPEECH

This is the first time in Independent India, the speech of a Chief Minister is censored, in which a number of restrictions have been imposed. It so happens the Chief Minister of Meghalaya Conrad K. Sangma is still not a member of the State Legislative Assembly, and therefore he is debarred and not entitled to speak upon any subject matter, that pertain to the development activities of the state government. The Election Commission had issued a specific instructions, that the Chief Minister should be guided by the model code of conduct and that his speech does not contain, any achievement of the government, nor announce any scheme or development project that the state contemplate to take up. This would be the first time the freedom of speech has been denied to a Chief minister in delivering the independence message to the people, being tongue-tied by law.

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BY ANY MEANS

Independent candidate to the South Tura Constituency, Leslie K Sangma has been pulled up in a show cause notice that he had made a speech using inflammatory comments, against former legislator Agatha Sangma and her late father P. A. Sangma, by any means bringing about religious overtones in the election campaign. Leslie had been accused of deliberate accusing late P. A. Sangma as being converted to Hinduism, as during the speech, a video clip was shown P. A. Sangma accepting a “tikka” applied on his forehead, during his visit to a temple. This is a contravention that religion and caste cannot be included in election propaganda.

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CURBING PLASTIC TOURISM

Tourist traffic in Shillong and different parts of the state have recorded an increase, especially during current summer season, where people would love to see and singing in the monsoon rains, especially in the Sohra region. However, many tourist spots in the state are littered with plastic waste, which is an eye sore and caught the attention of the government. The State Government would be imposing Section 144 CrPC, prohibiting use of polythene, as a means to check plastic waste. As most of the tourist spots are run by village durbars and private societies, an official order would be issued to keep tourist spots spotless clean, keeping up the name of Mawlynnong, being the cleanest village in the country and continent.

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FISH THE PROBLEM

The people of Shillong, the neighborhood, are still facing the acute problem of no fish curry. The State Government which had banned import of fish because of the detection of Formalin for fifteen days, had extended another fifteen days for another reason. That the absence of fish in the market would encourage, fishing within the state, to benefit fishermen and increase production. Whether fifteen days is enough to meet the requirement of eighty thousand metric tons of fish in year, required. It is something beyond mathematical calculation and imagination.

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Far from the madding crowds of the world and nestled in the lap of nature, the Seven Sisters of North Eastern India currently are under the sinister shadow of cross-border smuggling carried out by the Muslim smugglers of Bangladesh and mainly ethnic Chin people of Myanmar. These dangerous smugglers are getting emboldened day by day. They not only are carrying out smuggling operations most daringly in Meghalaya, Mizoram, Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and Nagaland but also killing local people and members of the Border Security Force and other paramilitary outfits guarding the long, porous borders that touch lawless Bangladesh and Myanmar.