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Meghalaya CM new NECCC chairman
Shillong, Sept 17: The North East Congress Coordination Committee (NECCC) today elected Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang as its new chairman.
Shillong, Sept 17: The North East Congress Coordination Committee (NECCC) today elected Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang as its new chairman.
Lapang succeeded former Nagaland Chief Minister S C Jamir,
who held the post for two consecutive terms spanning six years
Senior Congress leader Salman Khursheed told a news conference that the NECCC at the end of its two-day meeting 'unanimously' decided to make Lapang the new chairman.
Lapang, in his turn thanked the NECCC and said he would strive to strengthen the party units in the region, including in the new entrant Sikkim. He outlined the problems besetting the area with insurgency being the main 'dislocation' of the development process with quite a few highly educated youths without any employment.
The NECCC, he said, would pressurise the Centre to take up the busting of militants camps in neighbouring countries.
Besides, a new law enforcing machinery would be set up to tackle the problem, he said, adding the NECCC would now have a new approach in the education process with more thrust on vocational education. Recalling the background for the formation of the NECCC by Capt Williamson Sangma, Lapang said the Congress had a love for the region.
Earlier, Jamir in his address said the objective of NECCC was to present 'collective voice' in parliament and to the Centre on any issue relating to the region as the entire area was affected if something happened in any one of the states.
Bureau Report
Senior Congress leader Salman Khursheed told a news conference that the NECCC at the end of its two-day meeting 'unanimously' decided to make Lapang the new chairman.
Lapang, in his turn thanked the NECCC and said he would strive to strengthen the party units in the region, including in the new entrant Sikkim. He outlined the problems besetting the area with insurgency being the main 'dislocation' of the development process with quite a few highly educated youths without any employment.
The NECCC, he said, would pressurise the Centre to take up the busting of militants camps in neighbouring countries.
Besides, a new law enforcing machinery would be set up to tackle the problem, he said, adding the NECCC would now have a new approach in the education process with more thrust on vocational education. Recalling the background for the formation of the NECCC by Capt Williamson Sangma, Lapang said the Congress had a love for the region.
Earlier, Jamir in his address said the objective of NECCC was to present 'collective voice' in parliament and to the Centre on any issue relating to the region as the entire area was affected if something happened in any one of the states.
Bureau Report