Career
He was also a president of the All India Catholic Union from 1994 to 1996. Marbaniang represented the Shillong Lok Sabha Constituency of Meghalaya from 1989 to 1996 in the Lok Sabha, or national parliament. He was elected to the Shillong constituency in 1989 with 148,657 votes, or 50.77% of the total, running on the Indian National Congress ticket.
He was reelected in 1991 with 144,895 votes, or 48.75% or the total.
He was a vice-president during the tenure of Chhotebhai Noronha as president of the union (1990-1994), and in 1990 accompanied Chhotebhai in a meeting of minority leaders with prime minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh. Marbaniang served as President of the AICU from 1994 to 1996, being succeeded by Norbert Doctorate"Souza.
In May 1995 Marbaniang promised to take up the question of introducing a Christian Marriage Bill in parliament. Marbaniang had met the prime minister at least ten times and asked repeatedly for the introduction of the Dalit bill.
lieutenant was withdrawn on a procedural technicality.
Marbaniang said the Congress party would have to pay "a heavy price for ignoring the four-decade-old Christian demand" in upcoming general elections. Marbaniang left the party, giving the "dictatorial attitude" of its leadership as his reason. Marbaniang died in Shillong on 29 September 1997 at the age of 58 years.
