The Hynñiewtrep Integrated Territorial Organisation (HITO) will adopt a novel way of making their disappointment in the government known – by handing out flowers.
The pressure group has been left unsatisfied with the state government’s response to the firing of tear gas at protesting contractual teachers on October 6.
HITO wanted the police officers involved to have been suspended but they have not and it has also found the Home Minister’s assurances on the issue to be underwhelming.
Speaking to reporters, HITO president Donbok Dkhar said that the pressure group will hand out “roses of redemption” and other flowers at the Secretariat, Chief Minister’s official residence and offices of MDA coalition members on Friday to tell the politicians that they need to “repent of their sins”.
“Let the public themselves teach the politicians who are underqualified the true meaning of democracy,” Dkhar added.
HITO plans to march from the U Kiang Nangbah statue opposite Shillong Civil Hospital to the Secretariat on Friday at 11am. It was this same route that was taken by the protesting teachers a week ago; they did so without prior permission from the authorities, police had said. From the Secretariat, HITO will carry on to the CM’s residence and offices of political parties.
