SHILLONG, JAN 22: The opposition Congress today slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally National People’s Party for their lies over the coal ban issue in Meghalaya and said they should be awarded with an honorary degree on “master of lies”.
“Lies afer lies before election and lies after lies after the elections…I don’t know if they have opened a good school to learn the art of lying,” former chief minister and now leader of opposition Mukul Sangma said after a consultative meeting held to discuss on the party manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, here on Tuesday.
He said the BJP and NPP have engaged in lies to get votes and even after formation of the government, they continue to lie to the people of the state adding “will have to find a university which can provide honorary degree on ‘master of lies’ to them.”
Recalling the tall promises made by the BJP leaders during their election campaigns in the 2018 Assembly elections that coal ban will be lifted within a span of six months, Sangma said, “The Union ministers including Rajnath Singh when they came here also made that statement and it was done with the knowledge of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
The Congress leader further lambasted the ruling NPP for denying that there was no rampant illegal coal mining in the state.
“When we drew the attention of the government, the chief minister (about the issue) in the Assembly, next day in the newspaper he (Conrad) gave a statement that there is no illegal mining. They lied in the Assembly and he lied to the people of the state,” he said.
He said the ruling BJP at the Centre before formation of the government had claimed to bring back the black money, giving Rs 15 lakh in the accounts of the people and others which are nothing but lies.
“These are promises which are on record the nation knows it but where has those promises gone – that means they have made promises just to get votes, that means it is full of lies,” he added.
Asked, Sangma said the approach of the Indian National Congress is very different as “we don’t make promises what we don’t intend to implement or to fulfil.”
He said the party in the state have done auditing of the 2013 manifesto as to how far it could achieved and implement the promises made before the people of the state.
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