Meghalaya: Prestone Tynsong urges patience amid NEHU tensions

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SHILLONG: Deputy Chief Minister in charge of Home (Police), Government of Meghalaya, Prestone Tynsong, on Tuesday addressed the prevailing unrest at North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), urging students and the public to remain calm and allow the law to take its course.

“Right now the situation on the NEHU campus is okay. We appeal to the student communities also and to everybody that let us wait; don’t just be emotional because the law takes its own course, and allow the investigation to go on, and once that is done, then they will be able to know also exactly what was happening over there,” Tynsong said.

“The reason (for the withdrawal of police force from NEHU) is like this—when the police information was that there may be some kind of reaction, some kind of law and order [situation], from the police side they said that we have to be well prepared in case, if there is any kind of reaction, as I said to you, especially because it is on the campus and the campus of NEHU is huge. So on the basis of that, then the police were ready, and then they were there inside. But ultimately, after having a meeting with the person in charge of the NEHU campus, ultimately, it was decided that the police should be withdrawn, and in case any issues arise, the person in charge of the NEHU campus will take care of it, or they will inform the police department. The investigation is on.”

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