Shillong, Jun 15: Headmen and elders of Hima Sohra met Governor CH Vijayshankar on Monday, alleging the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council is delaying recognition of their elected Syiem and calling it an “abuse of energy”.
Led by Paiem Laborious Manik S Syiem, Advisor to Synjuk ki Khlieh Nongsynshar Hima Sohra and former Syiem of Hima Mylliem, the group stated they went “to satisfy the Governor of the State to precise the premise of our declare that now we have already elected the Syiem of the Hima” after the KHADC “neither revered nor honored the demand”.
The aim, he stated, was “to make him conscious of the disrespectful act of the Government Committee of the KHADC concerning their demand, and likewise to request him to look into the conduct of the KHADC.”
The delegation stated representations have been pending since November 2025.
“We’ve knowledgeable the district council and likewise hooked up the particular paperwork concerning the election technique of Hima Sohra and the process from the clan… until the set up of the Syiem of Hima Sohra. However all that remained solely as phrases until in the present day now we have not acquired any info from them.”
On the KHADC’s silence, Paiem Laborious remarked: “We then assume that silence means consent.”
The group insisted the Syiem should observe customized.
“In Hima Sohra the election of the Syiem for Hima Sohra is in accordance with the Act of the district council and particularly the customized and custom. It has all the time been an individual who has the lineage of the village, the raid of Hima Sohra and on the identical time it’s clear that he should maintain the normal faith which is the customized of Hima Sohra.”
They objected to the KHADC’s nominee, saying, “That one that was produced by the district council… is an individual whose grandfather 100 years in the past was in Mairang, he now not has an tackle in Hima Sohra. He now not lives within the village and on the identical time he has turn out to be a Christian which is in opposition to the legislation of Hima Sohra.”
Citing the 1903 Harbor Report, web page 29, he added, “The unique British officer… revered the customized and custom… and gave a agency choice in 1903, web page 29, that those that are Christians have been rejected, they can’t be Syiem of Hima Sohra.”
With “June” now arrived, he stated, “What path can the headmen take? They’ve to return to the top of the State… to inform him the truths which have occurred from November until in the present day and to request him to kindly take needed motion as per the correct process as the top of the State and guardian of the Structure.”
Calling it “abuse of energy by this current KHADC has gone too far that we’re compelled to return and cry earlier than the top of the State,” the advisor additionally defended Hima Sohra’s conventional governance. “We already had direct democracy… within the village dorbar and clan dorbar like MLAs and MDCs, and oblique democracy like Parliament, Rajya Sabha, we already had it, the place within the Dorbar Hima it’s elected by the clans. So why is that this nice system of governance that now we have being, it appears, focused for destruction?”
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