Pressure on Meghalaya council to prepare tribal-only poll rolls

GUWAHATI

Several unit groups person petitioned the main of a tribal assembly successful Meghalaya to amend existing laws and make a abstracted electoral rotation for the assembly elections, excluding non-tribal voters. 

The elections to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC), scheduled for April 10, were postponed pursuing violence related to nominations filed by non-tribal candidates, mostly Bengali-speaking Muslims. Two radical were killed successful March aft the constabulary opened occurrence connected mobs that went connected the rampage successful the Chibinang country of the State’s West Garo Hills district.