SHILLONG: A day after the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha , chief minister Conrad K Sangma iterated his government’s opposition to it, saying it was ‘unfortunate’.Sangma, who is also president of the National People’s Party (NPP), which is a constituent of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), is hard pressed to sever ties with the saffron party in lines with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) over the issue regarding the controversial Bill.“It is very unfortunate that the government has passed the amendment in the Lok Sabha. We, as a government, have expressed our concerns about it and had passed a resolution long time back before anybody else spoke out against it. So we have clearly expressed our reservations and our concerns about this, which is something that we don’t support at all,” Conrad told reporters on the sidelines of a function at Umiam (Barapani) near here today.The Meghalaya cabinet was the first to adopt a resolution opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, when a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on it was touring the northeast to take people’s views on the bill.Health minister AL Hek from BJP has made his position clear, saying that he, too, was part of the cabinet that had adopted the resolution opposing the bill.

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