Meghalaya governor wants no speeches after his, skips seminar
June 9th, 2011 - 6:28 pm ICT by IANSShillong, June 9 (IANS) Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary Thursday declined to inaugurate a national seminar sponsored by the union home ministry here as the organisers did not comply with his demands.
Mooshahary, a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and National Security Guard (NSG) chief, was scheduled to inaugurate the national seminar on “Development, Conflicts and Democratic Governance: India’s Experience in the North-East” here but had insisted that the national anthem be played before and after he speaks at the seminar, and nobody should be allowed to speak after that.
K.S Subramanian, the lead organiser of the seminar, was not at all happy with Mooshahary’s demands.
“I find this unacceptable because we wanted A.N. Rai, vice chancellor of the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), to deliver his remarks at the inaugural session,” he said.
Subramanian, also a retired IPS officer, said the organisers could not leave out the vice chancellor’s address as he was the chairman of the session, and had extended a helping hand to organise the seminar.
He said that at least two of his books were launched in Delhi in the last few years by Vice President Hamid Ansari, who had never made any such demands.
“If the vice president is not insisting on national anthems before and after his speeches, why should a governor do so?” Subramanian sought to know,
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