The District Magistrate & District Election Officer, East Khasi Hills District has declared May 8, 9 and 10, 2023 as ‘Dry Days’.

It has sternly warned that no spirituous, fermented, intoxicating liquors or other substances of a like nature shall be sold, given or distributed at a hotel, eating house, tavern, shop or any other place, public or private and within a polling area.

Further, the District Election Officer also declared May 13, 2023, the day of counting of votes for the Sohiong polls in the district as ‘Dry Day’.