Shullai urges Centre to facilitate peace talks with HNLC for lasting peace

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaAugust 29, 2021

BJP leader and cabinet minister Sanbor Shullai has sought the Centre’s intervention for facilitating peace talks with the banned Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC).

Shullai also submitted a letter addressed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his meeting with the Union Joint Secretary of Home Affairs Piyush Goyal in New Delhi on Friday last. 

The South Shillong legislator also briefed about the present day situation in Meghalaya. 

In the letter, Shullai informed that in connection with the strategic appeal made to the HNLC group banned by the Government of India to give up arms and come mainstream to initiate the peace process, the group in the past too had expressed their desire for a meaningful dialogue with the Govt of India. 

He added that the same has been initiated by the MDA government under the able leadership of Chief Minister, Conrad Sangma. 

However due to some pre conditions laid down by the HNLC, the talks have not materialized. 

Asserting the importance of the central government’s role in bringing several banned organisation for peace dialogue, the BJP leader said, “Thus the BJP Meghalaya and the MDA requests the central government to expedite peace process with HNLC and help to restore complete peace and tranquility in Shillong.”

“The NDA government at centre has repeatedly assured the people of northeast for a better future, so the Ministry of Home Affairs, can play a decisive role in engaging  the HNLC  in a meaningful dialogue under the purview of the constitutional parameters so as to join mainstream society and be a part of the global and national development process,” he stated.