Shillong, November 12: Hours after the East Khasi Hills district authorities directed the Joint Action Committee (JAC) to vacate the Secretariat entrance, police shifted the women protesters in two buses and dropped them back at their protest site near Statues of Kiang Nangbah, close to Civil Hospital.
The women protesters left the Secretariat premises smiling and boarded the buses arranged by the police without any resistance.
Speaking to the media, JAC president Deborah Marbaniang said she was unaware of where the police would take them but asserted that the agitation would continue.
She made it clear that the JAC would call off its protest against the Shillong Ropeway Project only if the government scrapped the project or shifted it to another location.
She further asserted that if the government proceeded with the proposed ropeway project on Lum Shyllong, the JAC, along with members of the public, would not back down and would continue its agitation against the project.
