SHILLONG, JAN 25: Vowing to rake up the demand for a separate Khasi- Jaintia state again, the Hills State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) also promised to resolve the longstanding Meghalaya-Assam boundary dispute and do away with the joint Assam-Meghalaya cadres for the IAS and IPS.
These promises along with other issues were part of the manifesto of the HSPDP released on Friday for the Meghalaya legislative assembly slated for February 23 by the party’s supremo Hopingstone Lyngdoh. This oldest regional party is the first to release its election manifesto.
The issues like creation of a separate Khasi-Jaintia State which should include areas under the erstwhile United Khasi Jaintia Hills district, resolution to the inter-state boundary dispute and opposition to uranium mining are all old hats as the party has been speaking about it in all the previous elections.
The HSPDP has so far fielded 12 candidates in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills hills for the upcoming assembly polls.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HSPDP MANIFESTO
- To push for the creation of a separate Khasi-Jaintia state
- To resolve the inter-state boundary dispute with Assam
- To demolish the joint cadre system of all-India civil services shared with Assam
- To implement the Inner Line Permit System and strengthen the Land Transfer Act to safeguard the indigenous people
- To oppose uranium mining
- To encourage Khasi traditional healing
- Setting up of vocational training institutes
- To re-open border haats along the Indo-Bangladesh border
- To alter the job reservation policy
- To push for the setting up of agro-based and mineral-based industries where local entrepreneurs would be given priority
- To construct ropeways in villages where road connectivity is near to impossible.- By Our Reporter
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