Save Hynniewtrep Mission on a warpath & assert to violate any prohibitory order

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaNovember 1, 2022

Announcing of more agitations in the coming days, the Save Hynniewtrep Mission (SHM) on Tuesday make it clear they will violate all prohibitory order for the greater cause of the Ri and the Jaidbynriew.

Talking to reporters after meeting Home Minister Lakmen Rymbui following their protest programme, HYC general secretary Roykupar Synrem said they responded to the open invitation of deputy chief minister Prestone Tynsong, who asked pressure groups not to be busy in the streets and beating up people but to come to the secretariat to discuss any issues.

He further said based on the open invitation from Tynsong they march to the secretariat to meet and put question to them (ministers) as to what has happen to the resolutions related to the ILP and Khasi language.

He also said that they wanted to know what happen to the report of the one man commission of inquiry which stated that the police are involved in the killing of ex-HNLC leader Cheristerfield Thangkhiew. He added that they desire to seek information on what happen to the various charges of corruption..

He also said they wanted to knoe what the government is doing regarding the unemployment, job reservation policy as well as repealing of the casino act.

Synrem said, “We came with that motive and objective to meet the people who are representing us but sadly we came to know that from now onwards if you want to meet your representative, you have to seek permission from the deputy commissioner,”

This is unfortunate as they have not had this kind of a situation before, he added.

Condemning the imposition of 144 CrPC across the state capital, Synrem said that this is nothing but a ploy of the government to suppress the voice of the people’s by not allowing people to come to the street to show that they are not happy with its functioning.

“May be this is just a ploy or a tactic of this government to further strengthen its own party so that they may gain political mileage in the next election,” he asserted.

Synrem said that the Govt cannot implement laws in order to keep the people from protesting or from showing and exercising their rights.

“We make it clear that we will not abide by these kinds of laws or order by the district magistrate,” he added

Synrem said that actually they did not want to meet the home minister since they already knew it will not be a fruitful meeting and it will be just a waste of time.

“But at the end we respect him as a home minister so we just went and informed him that today we have launched this Save Hynniewtrep Mission and that in the coming days the five organizations will further intensify agitations,” he said.

Meanwhile, the HYC leader said the state government and the district administration to be prepared for more and more surprise agitations.

“We will be announcing a series of agitations. Our members and volunteers will go to every place that the chief minister visits, that the deputy chief minister visits or any minister visit whether it is for their own party meeting or for official meetings – to remind and ask them as to what happened to these points of demands,” he said.

He said that the timeframe put forth by the five pressure groups in the first phase of agitation is for the government to fulfill the demands before the model code of conduct is made effective in the state.

“During this period there will be a series of agitations. After the model code of conduct is announced, we will sit and discuss our future course of action,” Synrem stated.