Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable |
Kyrmen Shylla | |
Office1: | Member of the Legislative Assembly for 6 Khliehriat Constituency |
Constituency1: | 6-Khliehriat Constituency |
Term Start1: | 2018 |
Predecessor1: | Justine Dkhar |
Office2: | Minister for Revenue & Disaster Management Department, Social Welfare Department, Excise, Government of Meghalaya |
Term Start2: | 2018 |
Nationality: | Indian |
Party: | United Democratic Party |
Birth Date: | 22 November 1988 |
Birth Place: | Khliehriat, India |
Residence: | MLA Bungalow, Shillong |
Occupation: | Politician, businessman |
Kyrmen Shylla (born 22 November 1988) is a politician from United Democratic Party and an MLA of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly from Meghalaya, India. He is the youngest minister sworn[1] in as one of the Cabinet Ministers by the then Governor of Meghalaya, Ganga Prasad, in the NPP-led coalition of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government in the state.
Kyrmen Shylla is the son of Smti. Kle Shylla and Shri. Kor Sympli, former MDC of the Jaitia Hilla Autonomous District Council. Shylla has fifteen siblings. He is the sixth child of the family. Shylla is a businessman.
Shylla completed his Secondary School Leaving Certificate, MBOSE, from Khliehriat Higher Secondary School, Khliehriat in 2004.
Kyrmen Shylla won the Assembly election from Khliehriat Constituency as a UDP candidate in the year 2018.
In 2018, Shylla contested the Khliehriat constituency as a UDP candidate, winning his first election to the state assembly. He won[2] against Justine Dkhar of Bharatiya Janta Party with a victory margin of 8181 votes.
Shylla was elected to the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly in 2018 from Khliehriat constituency as a candidate of the United Democratic Party.
Kyrmen Shylla is presently in charge of Revenue & Disaster Management Department, Social Welfare Department, Excise.
Shylla is unmarried. He is keen to adopt a girl child to his family which was abandoned at his residence in November 2019.