SHILLONG, Dec. 13 -- Member of Parliament (MP) from Shillong, Vincent H Pala from the Congress on Friday sought the intervention of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to exempt the entire state of Meghalaya from the purview of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019."I request you to extend the exemption from the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 to all regions of the state of Meghalaya," Pala said in a memorandum to Modi and he stated that the Act exempts the regions covered under the Sixth Schedule from its ambit and this exemption covers about 97% of the region, leaving parts of Shillong.

The Shillong MP also brought to the notice of the Prime Minister of a 1975 Supreme Court judgment in the case of The District Council, United Khasi Jaintia...