Fifty years on from the struggle to create what is now Meghalaya out of undivided Assam, the Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) today felicitated 58 volunteers who went to prison for the cause.
The party has identified 301 such individuals who protested and campaigned for a separate hill state, which came into being as Meghalaya on January 21, 1972.
The function today coincided with the 53rd raising day of the HSPDP.
The party will now push the state government to recognise the efforts of the Hill State Movement activists in the run-up to Meghalaya’s golden jubilee in 2022, cabinet minister and HSPDP general secretary Renikton Lyngdoh Tongkhar said today.
One of those felicitated, T Lyngdoh from Nongstoin, urged the public to give the HSPDP a chance to run Meghalaya.
“The people of India credit the Congress for its role in the freedom struggle (from the British) and it governed India for nearly 40 years. Similarly, the HSPDP should also be given a mandate to rule the state,” Lyngdoh said.
