Teibor Pathaw of the People’s Democratic Front (PDF) will face a tough battle against sitting UDP MLA Embhahlang Syiemlieh in the 2018 polls. He was chosen as the party’s candidate during a zonal committee meeting held at Mawlai Mawdatbaki. Pathaw promises to initiate corpus fund for the poor families and will bring central schemes for the development of the constituency. On elected Pathaw will open a charitable trust to assist the poor and the needy.
The General Secretary of the party Auspicious Lyngdoh Mawphlang said, “If PDF comes to power we will empower the poor and the needy, agriculture policy will be discussed with farmer and youth policy will be discussed with the youth. Pathaw previously had contested in the 2013Assembly elections as an independent candidate but only came second.
In the upcoming elections Pathaw will face a tough battle against sitting Congress MDC Process T. Sawkmie and Sarita Nongpiur the wife of late Founder Cajee who is contesting as an independent candidate.
The Garo National Council (GNC) in a statement said it will give out form for its aspirant candidate on the 21st October in order to prepare for the 2018 Election. Speaking at the meeting the Vice President Mr. Agustine Marak said the party has already forms its Election Committee with Mr. Henington R. Marak as its chairman, Wining Ch. Marak as its Co-Chairman and Mr. H.A Marak as its Secretary. The Party is preparing to win maximum number of seats in the Garo Hills region by contesting in 7 constituencies in the region.
SSTS bus loses control leaving one critically injured
One Shillong Special transport Service (SSTS) bus bearing a number ML 01 6855 which was coming from Smit today early morning collide with 5 Maruti Alto including local taxi and left 1 person critically injured in Mawblei. According to eye witnessed the driver of the bus loses control over the vehicles due to break failed which result in collision with other Maruti cars. Other eye witnesses blamed it on the wet and slippery road due to heavy rain from last night. Injured people were moved to different hospital in Shillong for treatments.
100% reservation in Legislative Assembly for tribal’s
With only few months for the general the Meghalaya People United Front (MUPF) submitted a memorandum to the Chief Electoral Officer Government of Meghalaya seeking a reservation for all the 60 seats in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. MPUF in its memorandum also demanded to reserve 100 per cent seats in the Legislative Assembly for tribal’s of Meghalaya.
In the memorandum submitted to the Chief Election Officer recently the MPUF demanded implementation of the Act. Mr Dawanpoimi Laloo president of MPUF said that if the government maintains silence on the matter the MPUF will resort to take legal recourse.
Mr Laloo added that if other states like Arunachal and Mizoram can implement such reservation then why will it be difficult for Meghalaya to do the same.
The ongoing peaceful protest by the Progressive Workers Union (MPWU) of the MeECL gain momentum when the Mr Comingone Ymbon Power Minister assured them that he will look into their concerns personally.
The Minister said he will look into the matter and he will gather information from the Management of MeECL. Meanwhile the union will continue its black flag and lunch time protest meetings across the state until the management called up for open discussions with MPWU on the various demands.
The demand of the workers include Leave, Gratuity and leave, Overtime, Bonus, PF, Employers State Insurance or ESI to ensure health coverage, accident compensation, Maternity benefits, crèches, protection from Sexual Harassment etc should be accorded to all workers of MeECL.
The Union will again meet the Labour Minister on Tuesday 24th October in this regard.
Tamdorlang Risaw along with hundreds of his supporters joined the United Democratic Party (UDP) of Mawsynram circle. Risaw earlier had contested the district council elections against sitting MLA and suspended Congress leader PN Syiem but face defeat.
The motive behind Risaw collaboration with UPD is to lend support to Olanding Suin the UDP’s candidate from Mawsynram for the upcoming election. The official joing of Mr. Risaw was witness by Rymphang Wansai vice president, UDP EKH district, and GB Kharraswai, chief organiser of UDP Mawsynram constituency, and many party officials.
Vijaya Bank received the first prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar (Region C) for the year 2016-17 due to the active implementation of Hindi in its day to day activities. The award was handed over to the Bank by Hon’ble President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind and received by Bank MD & CEO Shri R. A. Sankara Narayanan in the presence of Hon’ble Union Minister for Home Affairs Shri Rajnath Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State Shri Kiren Rijiju, Hon’ble Minister of State Shri Hansaraj Gangaram Ahir and others at New Delhi.
GIRL FROM GUWAHATI SELECTED FOR ‘VOICE OF INDIA KID 2017’.
Manashi Sharma, an 11 years old girl, Class VI student of Pride Academy Kalaigaon and an offspring of very talented parents. Her mother Jitu Moni Saharia graduated in Classical Song while father Anupam Saharia is a well known Tabla and drum player of Darrang District. She is the powerhouse of talent as before this achievement she has also won ‘Voice of Darrang’ and stood first in the State level Jyoti Sangeet competition organized in Guwahati and recently has been selected for the National Music Entertainment Program ‘Voice of India Kids 2017’. She has made the entire Northeast especially her village Udmari near Kalaigaon in Darrang District very proud by her victory and has made her village known to everyone.
STREAMLET DKHAR RECEIVES ENTERPRISE AWARD
Streamlet Dkhar, a prominent Khasi writer, received the ‘2nd India’s Women Enterprise Awards’ (InWENA), 2017 for her contributions as woman in various fields at a ceremony held in New Delhi Institute of Management. Dkhar won the award in the category of “Woman Social Persona of the Decade - Grassroots Impact- Social Sphere, North Eastern India and Promotion of Khasi Poetry, Drama, Art, Culture and Khasi language of Meghalaya in the National and International level”. She expressed her gratitude and said that this award will encourage her to do more for the youth and women of the state and North-East.
The Mahila Congress of Umroi Constituency elected Rikynti Syiem as the president, and Iohlinda Malngiang as general secretary. A total of six vice presidents which include Esternlin Kharsati, Albina Marpan, Meshilda Lyngdoh, Probina Pasi, Dreamtimai Makri, and Rosalin Kharmawlong were elected.
The objective of forming the Mahila Committee was to donate money to the Congress candidate George B. Lyngdoh to spread a message and to inspire voters in other constituencies to vote with conscience and not by getting bribed or asking money from the candidates. George B Lyngdoh is the eldest son of former Chief Minister late E.K. Mawlong who had represented Umroi constituency in the past. George will contest from Umroi constituency against the present MLA Ngaitlang Dhar who is one of the richest MLAs in Meghalaya.
This is the second incident where people are collecting money for their candidates in order to contest in the upcoming election, the first incident happen earlier this month in Sohiong constituency where people collected money for their candidates. This is a lesson learnt for those who think that many people would vote only for candidates who can throw a lot of money during elections these two incidents prove otherwise. “By collecting donation for our candidate, we want to send a strong message that people of Umroi need to elect their MLA who is qualified and based on wisdom and conscience without getting influenced by money or ask money from the candidate,” said one of the donors.
The Mahila Congress women recalled by saying that in the past we had a number of intellectuals and statesmen in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly but today the State Assembly seemed to have become a house of business people.
The Mahila Members emphasized the need to bring change in the constituency by electing a representative who can make laws and policies for the benefit of the people and overall development in the constituency and the state as a whole. They also decided to spread the message to the nooks and corners of the constituency to denounce money power during election and vote for Lyngdoh as the MLA of Umroi, who can make laws and policies for the interest of the state and the constituency.
Referring to (Dhar) The Mahila President Rikynti Syiem said we need to reverse this trend since innocent voters have been fooled during elections by various candidates especially candidates who are businessmen. Meanwhile Lyngdoh assured the people of Umroi that if elected he would work hard to uplift the constituency which still requires a lot of development and find out ways and means for providing livelihood to the people including the youth and the poor.
The United Democratic Party UDP has announced Pynkhlainborlang Mukhim as its candidate for the upcoming election for Mawryngkneng constituency. Speaking at the function the UDP president Dr. Donkupar Roy said “from today each and every one of us needs to work hard to make sure that your candidate becomes victorious in the upcoming election. Stating that the alliance of the UDP-HSPDP is to unite the people of the state, he said, “We request the people to support this attempt by both the regional parties to unite the indigenous people of the state.
Meanwhile the newly selected UDP candidate from Mawryngkneng Pynkhlainborlang Mukhim had promise to upgrade the PHC into a CHC at Mawryngkneng if he is elected as the representative to the legislative assembly in the upcoming election.
