Cong to fight instability

SHILLONG, SEPT 14: Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today said the ruling Congress will do whatever it takes to ensure that Meghalaya is not subjected to ‘instability’.

“I tell you Congress will do all that is necessary to ensure that Meghalaya is not subjected to that kind of instability in the future. I assure you and that will happen,” Sangma told reporters here on Thursday.

Reacting to a query with regards to reports indicating few Congress sitting legislators would ditch the party to seek re-election from other political parties in 2018 polls, the chief minister termed such politicians as “transcodes”.

“This is the legacy that we have and there is nothing surprising. There is always a transcode that we have seen and that has been a reason for the kind of political turmoil which the state has seen through ever since the inception of the state,” he said.

Stating that it has been his privilege to lead the state as the chief minister of the Congress-led MUA-II government, Sangma said that as a chief minister he knows what is happening and he knows what the strength the party has.

“So based on that what is the call that will be taken will be taken, but I am not going to put the cards on the table. It’s a question of looking at the people who have predetermined motive of shifting their allegiance,” he said.

Reiterating that his party is determined to ensure there will be instability in the future, Sangma said that the state has suffered enough because of shifting allegiance by people who were referred to as transcode.

“They (transcode) were instrumental in creating such kind of instability, dislocating the momentum of development and growth of the state thereby somehow preventing the state from realising its potentiality that would have put the state at a higher pedestal,” he said.

On the other hand, he however warned that the younger generation are looking at these people and the reasons for their shifting their allegiance (to other political parties).

“It is because they are looking at greener pastures and presuming that those pastures will actually enable them to satisfy their hunger for self-centric interest. That is something which will have to be analysed and assessed by the people also and appropriately response to that kind of situation,” he added.

Sangma further reiterated that he knows that people today are saying enough is enough because the state had been the sufferer of political instability preceding 2010.

He claimed that a political turn around to provide a kind of stability that was needed for the state has happened (under the Congress regime).

“That is why you see turn around in overall developmental agenda creating certain amount of visibility in different sectors. You look at the graph of the per capita Income rising, look at the growth rate it is all available,” he said.

“It is all because precisely we have been able to fight against forces who were always bent upon creating instability in the state,” Sangma added.

By Our Reporter