Shillong, Feb 20: The United Democratic Party(UDP) is of the strong opinion, that in light of the recent news reports regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016,the government should seriously look into the implementation of ILP and, in fact , even go beyond it if required, in the interest of giving more teeth to it, considering the complexities and challenges of the 21st century.
The Party urgently urges upon the government to strengthen the Land Transfer Act by doing away with certain provisions that alienates land in the garb of tribal interest. The Industrial policy has to be fine tuned , to curb the ongoing practices of availing plots at the industrial estates to outside entities at the expense of the state’s exchequer.
The Trading License issued by the District Councils has to be strictly implemented considering that the local indeginous people are competent enough to carry out various trades. The regulation and registration of outside labourers is another area of great concern which the government needs to seriously look into.
The registration of voters from outside the state is another area of grave concern, especially along the international borders as well as the inter state borders, where their actual antecedents need to be properly verified before registering them.
The Party would like to appeal to the people ,not to fall prey to propagandas of national parties, who as all can see are more concerned with vote banks rather than the wellbeing of the state’s population.
The contention that the Congress is the only party that can fight against the CAB is another opportunistic ploy to fool the electorate. The electorate knows that if all the north eastern states were under regional parties regime, the centre would have not dared but going by history on how the north eastern states vote national parties to power, the union government has seized the opportunity.
The Party which in this current term has no MP , is not part of NDA, as NDA is a Parliamentary Alliance. The regrouping of all North Eastern Political Parties in Gauhati has rendered NEDA bereft of regional parties said Mr Alantry F Dkhar Vice President of the UDP in the press statement.
