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The Anti-Corruption League (ACL), representing the Desi Muslims inhabiting the plains belt of Meghalayas Garo Hills region, listed its request in a letter to Chief Minister Conrad K..
The letter was submitted on May 30, the day when the National Peoples Party-led Meghalaya government reconstituted a Committee for discussing the implementation of a reservation roster system and the State Reservation Policy...
The basic idea of the reservation is an affirmative action by the State towards a group of people who were deprived of opportunities or suffered inequalities in the past, the ACL said, pointing out that the present reservation system not only deprives the meritorious but has also created a group of people who are subjected to injustice and widespread inequalities...
Regional political parties, primarily the newly-formed Voice of the People Party (VPP) and some pressure groups saw in the roster system an advantage for the Garos...
While the ACL sought the representation of the Desi Muslims in the Committee, the Meghalaya Indigenous Minority Tribes Forum (MIMTF) resented the exclusion of the representatives of the minor tribes from the panel.The.
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