SHILLONG, JULY 18: MDA government spokesperson Ampareen Lyngdoh on Tuesday said that the government should not entertain the demand for a winter capital in Tura.
Commenting on the ACHIK’s indefinite hunger strike in Garo Hills demanding for a winter capital, Lyngdoh said, “The state of Meghalaya has a very divergent combination of districts and if everybody is going to be rising and saying bring the winter capital here, bring the spring capital there, bring the summer capital there then it is all going to go wrong. It would be not correct to consider any kind of a capital anywhere else. We are in Shillong, it is the capital and we hope that these demands should not be entertained. That is my personal view because we will be in trouble if every district starts saying “bring this to my district bring that to my district it will be difficult for us to administrate.”
She said, “The very fact that ministers are going all the way to various parts of the districts with that one intention, we can come to your district, we review your matters, take care of the matters and be there to make sure that you do not feel left out in governance but we can’t have summer capital there, winter capital there, spring capital there, autumn capital here, it is not possible.”
The spokesperson also reminded that the very fact that so many blocks have recently been installed and put in position, the basic idea is to bring administration closer to the public.
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