National and regional parties contesting the March 3 Meghalaya Assembly polls toe the Khasi Students' Union (KSU) in opposing the proposed Uranium Mining in West Khasi Hills district. The KSU called an all-party meeting today to question the political parties' stand on the vexed uranium mining issue in West Khasi Hills district. The BJP, NCP, UDP, KHNAM and the HSPDP attended the meeting. The UDP sent a letter of support in the opposition to the proposed uranium mining, while the Congress and the MDP abstain from the meeting. Interestingly, all the five parties spelt out their stand on uranium mining during the all-party meeting today. KHNAM president Paul Lyngdoh and HSPDP president Hopingstone Lyngdoh outrightly opposed the proposed uranium mining in Domiasiat-Pyndenkylleng-Mawthabah areas in West Khasi Hills district. The presidents of the two parties cited the danger of health hazards, threat to the indigenous Khasi population, land alienation and evils of nuclear weapons as reasons for their tough posture on the proposed mining of uranium ore. NCP president WR Kharlukhi, while referring to the democratic character of India, stated that 'the party would be with the people in determining the deciding on the proposed uranium in the State. Though equivocal, Kharlukhi did hint his party's decision