The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) has criticised various political parties of the state for making numerous promises ahead of elections but never fulfilling them after winning the vote.
“Since the inception of the state, many assurances were made but none were taken to their logical conclusion except for some statesmen and the late Martin N Majaw, who brought the Meghalaya Land Transfer Act,” KSU general secretary Donald V Thabah said on the sidelines of a programme.
Thabah said that politicians of the present generation are mainly busy only in paying lip service. “In public meetings they will profess their love for the indigenous people but when they win they do nothing,” he said.
According to Thabah, the state government has taken no real action to curb the influx of migrants into the state and he also described the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act as ultra vires to the Constitution. The KSU wants a cut-off date of March 24, 1971 (like in the Assam Accord) to be used to detect how many migrants from Bangladesh live in Meghalaya and the rest of the North East.
Meanwhile, the KSU general secretary also condemned the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) recent letter written to the President of India urging intervention in the case of twin murders of two non-tribals at Ichamati on March 27.
The VHP had demanded compensation for the victims’ families and called for an investigation led by central agencies into the incident.
In response, Thabah called the VHP foreign to the Khasi Hills and warned it to stay out of the state’s affairs.
