The whole town, too, was busy trying to make the best of Lyngdoh’s early days in Shillong and connect it to their lives. His first cousin W.L. Lyngdoh, who is currently the director of economics and statistics, recalled Bah Jim as an “intelligent person” who often “set examples for others”.
He recalled that the chief election commissioner had ordered officers not to overuse government vehicles when he was district collector in Bihar during the early Seventies.
“This was when there was an oil crisis and he choose to go to office on a bicycle,” W.L. Lyngdoh recalled, adding “he grew up disciplined, honest and very straightforward”.