Shillong, Feb 14: National People’s Party (NPP) state president and deputy chief minister Prestone Tynsong has said his party is committed to bring more effective laws for the protection of the indigenous community.

Addressing at an election campaign for garnering support for sitting MDC Batskhem Ryntathiang on Friday, Tynsong said that the NPP is committed to look into the issues and the welfare of the indigenous community.

Thanking the people of Khasi and Jaintia regions for their giving the party their mandate to lead in the KHADC and JHADC, he assured saying “We will continue to bring effective laws for the protecting the interest and welfare of the people by working closely with the traditional institutions.”

He said that the KHADC had organized a programme where the Governor of the state had distributed certificates to clan elders to show that they are empowered as per law passed by the council.

Tynsong also said that the law giving due recognition to the women and youth organization in the village is also a big blessing  besides the lineage act, which seeks to
Also, women and youth organization are also giving due recognition as per law. Is this not a blessing?

On the lineage act, he said it is an important law for the indigenous people.
“I urge the people to extend full support to the NPP and vote for our candidate Batskhem Ryntathiang so that he can serve the people of Mairang constituency in a much better way. If he re-elected, he would take up with the state government for addressing many issues faced by the people and the constituency,” he said.

Stating that people will always want change in every election, Tynsong said, “You have seen the NPP has been able to bring that necessary change. We have created this new district Eastern West Khasi Hills based on the long pending aspiration of the people. Who is doing this if it is not our party. Therefore, why should we have reason to say that the NPP is not a good party or NPP is a Garo party. If people are saying that so who is Prestone? I am the state president of the party.”

Slamming those who are trying to mislead the people by alleging that NPP is BJP, the deputy CM said, “Let me tell you NPP is formed by our tallest leader of the state (L) PA Sangma, who was the former Lok Sabha speaker from the region. The constitution of the NPP is to provide protection to tribal people not only in Meghalaya but from NE region. People from different parts of the country came to extend support to the formation of the NPP. A leader from Uttarakhand came and met us and expressed the need to form the NPP chapter in his state for protection of tribal minorities. Please do not think of NPP as an outsider.”

Asking the people not to get swayed by opposition political parties, which are good in giving big talks only, Tynsong informed that the government has come up with so many schemes to address the problem unemployment of local youth and said, “Please get necessary information from the BDO’s office.”

“We had organized the Meghalaya Games in whcih 3800 youth participated and winners get to complete the National Games, in which 3 won medals and brought laurels to the state. It will be an honour for the state to host the 39th National Games in 2027 in which 25000 will attend,” he said.

Further, the deputy CM thanked the people of the state for reposing their faith in the NPP and said this was despite the allegations made against the party during the covid pandemic.

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