KSU oppose the govt’s decision to appoint two former NTYU leaders as vice chairmen

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaJanuary 25, 2019

SHILLONG: The Khasi Students Union (KSU) has expressed strong opposition against the state government’s decision to appoint two former leaders of the Non-Tribal Youths Union (NTYU) as vice chairmen in the different departments.

“We demand the state government to immediately terminate the two NTYU leaders from the post of chairmen, failing which the Union will be compelled to take stern action on the matter,” KSU general secretary D Thabah said in a statement issued here on Friday.

He said the Vijay Raj and Pawan Sharma were former president and general secretary of the NTYU.

Raj, who is also the present vice president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was appointed as vice chairman of the Meghalaya Programme Implementation, while Sharma is holding the post of a vice chairman in the Meghalaya Commission on Resource Mobilisation.

Accusing the NTYU of being anti-tribals, Thabah said, “In the 1990s the organisation was responsible to hold agitations like bandh to oppose laws which seek to protect the rights and interest of the indigenous people and it is same organisation which is in favour to hold municipal elections.