KHNAM burns Mukul Sangma's effigy

The Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) outfit today burnt effigy of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma as a mark of protest against the delay to approve the KHAD (Village Administration) Bill, 2014.
The effigy was burnt right in front of the venue where former KHADC CEM Adelbert Nongrum and a youth supporter Goldy Warjri were on indefinite fast at Barik point here on Friday.
Before burning the effigy, Pyndapbor Saibon, President of the KHNAM, which is also on an indefinite sit-in-demonstration, said, "The burning of the effigy is to show our protest and condemn the state government's adamant attitude to pass the bill, pending for the past ten months."

"We therefore demand the state government to consider the immediate passing of village administration bill," Saibon said while adding "If it (government) found any anomalies in the bill, amendments can always be brought to rectify them."
He also appealed to all concerned especially the traditional chiefs and headmen to come forward and join the movement.
"This protest taken up is not for anybody's interest but it is for the interest of the indigenous community," the KHNAM president said.