Longturi Pahar
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[edit] Participation in elections
[edit] 1947-19/ not enrolled in voters' list
Some 150 Garo tribal people of Longturi Pahar, a village on the Assam-Meghalaya border, have virtually been forgotten by the Election Commission. Eligible to vote, these people have been waiting — as did their parents and grandparents settled there since 1940 — to be enrolled in the voters’ list.
One of the reasons they have been forgotten by the huge democratic exercise is a dispute between Assam and Meghalaya over the jurisdiction of the village, about 85 km west of Guwahati. Village headman Arbitson Momin said they had asked the authorities to enrol them in the Boko Assembly segment of Assam’s Guwahati Lok Sabha constituency. “This should happen soon, but not before this election,” Kamrup Deputy Commissioner of Police Kamal Kumar
