Deputy Chief Minister incharge of Home (Police) Prestone Tynsong, on Wednesday said the decision on the implementation of the roster system will be taken only after the return of Chief minister Conrad Sangma.
The Deputy Chief Minister informed reporters that apart from cabinet meetings, the state Government will hold consultative meetings with MDA partners as well as with the representatives of various political parties before taking any decision.
“We are waiting for the chief minister to reach Shillong and we will call a meeting. We will have a cabinet meeting and also we will have an all party meeting as well as MDA meeting with all responsible leaders and we will share and will discuss how to go forward,” Tynsong said.
Asserting that the state government had filed multiple pleas before the Meghalaya High Court to allow implementation of the roster system ‘prospectively’, he said, “we have filed affidavit (on this matter) not less than three times where we pleaded with the High Court that they should allow us ( the government) to implement the roster system prospectively not retrospectively, but the honourable high court at that point of time they insisted us, they said that it should be implemented retrospectively meaning from the inception of the state reservation policy.”
Asked, Tynsong said, “I have no right to reply on behalf of the High Court but that’s what I am saying, the point is very clear that we pleaded already as we wanted to implement it prospectively but the High Court insisted and said on record that it should be implemented from the inception of reservation policy. So, as of today, it stands like that.”