Shillong, Jan 15: The Election Commission clarified that registered voters living in villages alongside the disputed border with Assam could participate in the upcoming Assembly elections in Meghalaya.
Briefing the media in Shillong after preserving a review meeting of the poll preparedness in the election-bound state, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said, “People living in villages along the disputed border can participate in the elections despite what has happened. Both sides have held joint meetings and discussions are taking place at the senior level as well. We are alive to the state of affairs and there may be not anything to worry about.”
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The CEC went on to feature that there has been no problem. “We have reviewed the state of affairs at our end and district officials from both sides have had detailed meetings,” he stated.
Kumar stated the commission had instructed 16 central agencies to work in a coordinated manner in expenditure-sensitive constituencies.
At least six persons — five tribal villagers from Meghalaya and an Assam forest guard — were killed in a clash along the disputed border in November last year.
