CM holds security meeting

SHILLONG, AUG 12: Chief minister Mukul Sangma held a review meeting on the state’s preparations for maintenance of law and order in the state ahead of the ensuing Independence Day celebrations. Home minister Roshan Warjri,  parliamentary secretary (home)  WD Sangma,  DGP, senior police officers and officers of the home (police)attended the meeting.

Sangma shared his observations and findings during a similar review meeting taken by him recently in Garo Hills with senior police officers of the Western Range. A reference was made to the bandh calls by the proscribed HNLC in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills and the ASAK in the Garo Hills.

While appreciating the efforts of the law enforcement machinery on the steps taken to ensure that the law and order situation is maintained at all costs, Sangma reminded that the courage and indomitable spirit of the people of the state in standing up against and defying such calls for bandhs in the past, both in Khasi and Jaintia Hills and Garo Hills districts, should not be forgotten.

Sangmasaid, “It would therefore be in the fitness of things to appeal to all sections of the population in the state to come out in large numbers and demonstrate their strength and resolve to stand up against anti-national forces.”  According to him, this would send a strong message that the people of the state are matured and cannot be intimidated by threats of reprisals from such forces.

Earlier in the day,  home minister Roshan  Warjri and WD Sangma, parliamentary secretary (home) had also held a separate review of the preparedness of the law and order machinery for the ensuing Independence Day Celebrations, 2014.- By Our Reporter