Shillong, May 13: Laban MDC Ricky Shullai submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Conrad Sangma demanding state holiday on November 1 to respect Rev JJM Nichols Roy constitutional and historical role in shaping the Sixth Schedule.
In the memorandum submitted on Wednesday, Shullai termed Rev Nichols-Roy as “a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India and one of the principal architects and foremost defenders of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India.”
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He reminded that during the September 6, 1949 debate on the draft provisions, Nichols-Roy “firmly declared: ‘Our aspiration is with India, advocating autonomy within the Indian Union while rejecting proposals to detach the hill areas from India’.
