Shillong, Feb 16: The Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) has said the 60 MLAs have fooled the people of Meghalaya on ILP issue as the Centre is not keen to implement the ILP.
The BJP national general secretary Rituraj Sinha on Wednesday said that the ILP issue needs to be deliberated post-election.
He was replying to a query as to why the party manifesto was silent on ILP.
Sinha said a lot of people have argued that ILP is restrictive which could result in significant opportunity loss to the tourism sector.
In a statement on Thursday, KHNAM vice president Thomas Passah said the ILP issue has been pending with the central government for the past four years.
“And now the BJP general secretary Rituraj Sinha has said that “the ILP issue needs to be deliberate post-election. The question is has the ILP been kept locked in some of the almirah in Delhi? How much more do we need to deliberate?” he said.
Passah said that the past government and all 60 MLAs have fooled the people of the state on ILP through a resolution passed in 2019, “wherein they have chosen not to make any attempt to ensure that ILP is put in place to safeguard the identity and interest of the tribes of the state”.
“Conrad, with great joy, had accepted the Notification of the President of India on December 11 2019, which included Manipur under ILP. The Centre has changed the Preamble of the Eastern Bengal Frontier Regulation Act and the word Khasi-Jaintia was deleted though it was there earlier,” he said.
“It is shocking to see that our government has not appealed against this nor should we say that this was done after taking into confidence our state government?” he said.
He pointed out to the removal of Khasi-Jaintia word from the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation (BEFR) 1874 which is a clear violation of clause (3) (a) of the Article 372 – “Nothing in clause (2) shall be deemed – (a) to empower the President to make any adaptation or modification of any law after the expiration of three years from the commencement of the Constitution’.
