Shillong, June 3: Pyndapborthiaw Saibon has been re-elected as president of the Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM).

The general council meeting of the KHNAM held on Saturday also elected Thomas Passah as the working president, M Marpna as vice president and James A Neng as general secretary besides the other office bearers and executive members for the term 2023-2026.

Issues related to the demand for implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP), inclusion of Khasi language in the Eighth Schedule, border dispute, influx, rise in corruption, separate cadre system for Meghalaya and others were also discussed during the meeting.

Addressing media persons, newly elected working president Thomas Passah slammed the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government for knowing only how to pass resolutions and form committees instead of coming up with solutions to address the issues confronting the state.

“It seems we have a government who is a big fan of resolution and committee but zero in solution to the problems that the state is facing all this time,” he said while adding that the resolutions on ILP and Khasi language remain just as resolutions till today and committees constituted to relocate the Sweepers’ Colony and to investigate into the killing of former HNLC leader Cheristerfield Thangkhiew are also taking too long.

Stating that the party does not want any delay in the report of the recently constituted expert committee for reviewing the state reservation policy (SRP), Passah said, “We have had a meeting last time, we were not in agreement to have an expert committee but however expert committee has been constituted but our stand is very simple, we have point down specific amendments in the SRP 1972 which are legally strong and logically required.”

He said the party is also demanding the state government to arrange debate with the expert committee on the legality of the party’s recommendation for amendment.