Shillong advocate Vijay Raj, who was recently appointed as the vice-chairman of the Program Implementation and Monitoring Committee, on Wednesday tendered his resignation from the government post due to pressures from the students’ organisations of Meghalaya.
A TNT report published on Wednesday quoted Vijay Raj as saying: “It seems that my appointment as the Vice-Chairman is being opposed by some NGO’s stating that I was the President of Non-Tribal Youth Union (NTYU) but in spite of my clarification that I never was the President of NTYU, the NGOs have been continuing their opposition against my appointment which in my opinion is hampering the State function.”
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It may be mentioned that Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) accused advocate Raj of being a former leader of the Non-Tribal Youth Union (NTYU), an organisation, which was allegedly involved in anti-tribal movement back in the early 90s.
The lawyer is one of the two individuals who were appointed in two high-ranking posts by the Meghalaya government.
Raj was appointed as the vice-chairman of the Program Implementation and Monitoring Committee and Pawan Sharma, who is a former general secretary of NTYU, was appointed as the vice chairman of the Meghalaya Commission on Resource Mobilisation.
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The report quoted Vijay Raj as saying in his letter submitted to the Meghalaya chief minister here on Wednesday: “I submit my resignation from the said post as I do not want the State to suffer, for the interest of which I have been working till date. In spite of this resignation I will still continue to work for the betterment of the State,”
Earlier on the day, a group students led by North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) chairman Samuel Jyrwa and KSU president Lambok Marngar burnt effigies of Pawan Sharma and Vijay Raj during a public rally organised at Motphran in Shillong in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.