Shillong: The Meghalaya Assembly has on Thursday, unanimously passed the resolution to implement Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state. The Centre now has to amend the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.

A special session of the Assembly was called on Thursday for the passage of the resolution.

Opposition chief whip and Congress MLA P T Swakmie had issued a whip asking all 19 Congress MLAs to support the government resolution.

The clamour for ILP in Meghalaya grew after the Centre introduced ILP in whole of Manipur just days before CAB became a law.