Shillong, Sep 25: The Hynñiewtrep Integrated Territorial Organisation (HITO) has strongly criticised Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong for labelling suggestions that it was time Meghalaya had a Khasi-Jaintia Chief Minister as communal.

On Sunday HITO had written to the CM, Conrad K Sangma, asking him to give way to a Khasi-Jaintia colleague in the interest of fairness after he had applied the same reasoning to his cabinet reshuffle last week.

The pressure group had suggested Tynsong as one of the possible replacements as CM. However, when asked about this subject yesterday, Tynsong said he had no ambitions in this area and that such debates should not be communalised.

Today HITO labelled Tynsong’s statement as misleading and an insult to the people of Meghalaya.

HITO president Don

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