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<p><strong>TNT News | October 25, 2018</strong></p>
<p>The state of Meghalaya, particularly the Garo Hills region today
remembered the first CM of the state, Capt Williamson Sangma, through
various programs organized in many places across the region on the
occasion of his 28 death anniversary. The former CM was remembered
through grand functions held in his honour across Garo Hills.</p>
<p>Here are facts you need to know about the first ever Chief Minister of Meghalaya</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><em>**Williamson Ampang Sangma, a Garo
leader, was the founding Chief Minister of Meghalaya, twenty-first state
in Indian Union on 21 January 1972. He was also the first ever Governor
of Mizoram among the Garos in 1989</em></span></p>
<p><em><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)">** He along with Salseng C. Marak
are the only Meghalaya Chief Minister’s to complete full term of five
years in office. He always represented Baghmara assembly constituency,
even after merging his political outfit in Congress(I) party</span></em></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><em>** With prior military service, he
entered political field in 1952, and subsequently was elected as the
Chief executive member of the Garo Hills Autonomous District
Council(GHADC)</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><em>** He being the first Chief
executive member of Garo Hills Autonomous District Council(GHADC),
called a conference of the people of the autonomous hill districts of
then-Assam at Tura on 6–8 October 1954, to consider the demand of a hill
state</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><em>** In 1957, Sangma was elected to
Assam Legislative Assembly. When the Assamese language bill was passed
in spite of opposition from tribal people later, he resigned from the
cabinet to fight for the cause of separate statehood. W.A. Sangma
resigned his cabinet post from the government in protest against the
official Assamese language policy adopted by the Assam government</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><em>** In Meghalaya legislative
assembly elections held in March 1972, after the new state was
established, regional parties secured majority, while Congress secured
nine seats out of total 60 seats in assembly. W.A. Sangma of APHLC sworn
in as its first Chief Minister with majority</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><em>** With realisation of Meghalaya as
a state, it ultimately united the areas of the Khasi, Jainta, and the
Garo Hills under the leadership of Williamson Sangma. He also made sure
the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE), which he considered to
be of prime importance, was in Garo Hills</em></span></p>
<p>After his death in 1999, succeeding Government of Meghalaya honoured
him by naming several of public properties, including educational
institutes on his name.</p>
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