Marak slams ‘Garo CMs’ for violating tripartite agreement signed with ANVC groups

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMay 25, 2025

BJP Tura MDC and former chairman of the disbanded Achik National Volunteers Council – Breakaway (ANVC.B) Bernard N Marak has threatened to serve legal notice to “Garo Chief Ministers” for allegedly betraying the tribal people by violating the tripartite agreement signed between the Centre, State and ANVC.

He also demanded the state government to convene a meeting with leaders of the disbanded ANVC before deciding on the issue pertaining to the Tura medical college. 

In a statement, Marak said that the Tura Medical College is an outcome of the tripartite agreement signed by ANVC groups in 2014 with the BJP government in Delhi where the state government was a party. 

“Garo Chief Ministers betrayed the tribal people’s benefit by delaying the implementation of the agreement. They also violated the points agreed in an agreement. We are left with no option but to serve them a Legal notice for violating the tripartite agreement,” he said adding “We were assured of a better life through the tripartite agreement but we were targeted, apprehended, slapped with multiple cases. Now, fighting the government legally is the only option left for us.” 

Marak said that after the signing of an Agreement, the State was supposed to form a State Level Monitoring Committee and regular meetings were supposed to be held to monitor the implementation of the tripartite agreement however for more than a decade they cheated us giving us false hope. 

“Its been more than 10 years and no committees were formed and no meetings were held to monitor the agreement.”

The agreement focused in strenghtening the traditional system, to promote Local Self Governance, to transfer 13 departments, direct funding etc. 

Marak further accused the state government of hijacking the benefits towards the State departments and NPP government in GHADC misappropriated the Centre funds against GST has issued Show Cause to GHADC multiple times. 

The health, education, transport, forest, registration of birth and death, ST certificates, documents related to land like Non encumbrance, PRC etc were unlawfully taken over by the State instead of giving it to the Autonomous District Councils (ADCs). 

The BJP leader demanded that the Chief Minister Conrad Sangma should prove his leadership by honouring the tripartite agreement instead of making irresponsible statements on projects sanctioned through the tripartite agreement.

The State and the Centre Government violated the Agreement signed in 2014 as they failed to conduct the Monitoring Committees and hold meetings every 6 months. ANVC groups were betrayed and the whole tribal communities were betrayed and the projects were hijacked by the State Government leaving ADCs in debts. 

“Therefore, Chief Minister should first hold a meeting before taking any decision on Tura Medical College,” he added.