The deal to resolve disputed areas along the border of Meghalaya and Assam is “unconstitutional and biased”, the Garoland State Movement Committee’s Pedaldoba unit said today.
Land in the state falls under the jurisdiction of traditional rulers, which have been recognised by the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, Rimjen Ch Sangma said.
“The state government is not the owner of the land, they are custodians. So, the state legislature can only make laws in the interest of the people,” he said but cannot transfer land or alienate the people.
The deal with Assam does exactly that, however, Sangma claimed.
There has been rising discontentment to the border agreement, which was signed on March 29 but has yet to come into effect as the Survey of India needs to settle the boundary in detail and get parliamentary approval for it first.
The politicians who created the deal did so for “their political benefit” and not for the public, Sangma added.
