Pro-ILP groups announce three-night road blockade

Intensifying their protest over non-implementation of the Inner Line Permit to curb influx in Meghalaya, pro-ILP activists have announced a three-night road blockade across the state from October 29.
The blockade in the entire state would begin at 7 PM and end at 5 AM on all the three days, Garo Students Union president Tengsak Momin said.
Along with the GSU, 12 other groups including the influential Khasi Students Union and the Federation of Khasi, Jaintia and Garo People and the Jaintia Students Union, have jointly announced the anti-government stir.
"We have decided to continue with our agitation till the government decides to listen to the popular demand of the people," Momin said.

However, rejecting the demand to implement ILP, the state government reiterated the need for implementing the Meghalaya Landlords and Tenants Verification Bill and said public consultation have been scheduled from November 11.
In the past seven weeks of the ILP demand related violence in the state, two lives were lost and properties worth crores of rupees were damaged and over 50 activists were arrested.
A special court has been constituted to try all cases related to ILP stir and the state government has filed a Rs 21 crore damage suit against pro-ILP activists and their groups involved in the violence.