Meeting with Meghalaya NGO's inconclusive

Shillong, Apr 27 :With four tribal ngos holding night blockade of roads in four districts of the Khasi Jaintia hills in Meghalaya in protest against alleged enrolment of dubious voters, talks between them and the state government was inconclusive today. At the talks, the ngos opposed enrolment drives at special cells at the offices of deputy commissioners and subdivisional officers. "We have asked the government to put on hold the enrolment drive through special cells at the offices of the deputy commissioner and the subdivisions," Khasi Students Union President Daniel Khyriem told reporters after the meeting. "Instead enrolment drives should be conducted at the village level to prevent any dubious voter from getting themselves enrolled in the state," Acting President of Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People, Joe Marwein, said. The other two NGOs were the Synjuk Seng Samla Shnong and the Hynniewtrep National Youth Front. The ngos met Home Minister H D R Lyngdoh, Election Minister J A Lyngdoh and officials of the election and the police departments. Chief Election officer P Naik maintained that there was no D-voter in the state. Meghalaya with a population of nearly three million has completed registering 13.75 lakh voters out of 14.9 lakh voters. Naik said the enrolment drive would continue as per Election Commission directives. Law and order in the four districts have been affected by the two day road blockade since yesterday. Extra para military forces have been deployed around sensitive installations in the city during the road blockade hours, East Khasi Hills district deputy Commissioner Sanjay Goyal told