SHILLONG, JULY 20: Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma has come under scathing attack from opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) for staying away from the recent NITI Aayog meeting and adding ‘political color’ to the meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss plan allocation for the states.
UDP working president Paul Lyngdoh criticized Sangma’s failure to attend such an important meeting at a time when the state is facing financial crisis.
“For the first time in the history of the state, the chief minister even failed to attend a very important meeting convened by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the NITI Aayog in order to discuss the plan allocations for the state,” Lyngdoh told newsmen after the party’s CEC meeting on Monday.
Pointing out on the financial loss of over Rs 1200 crore annually by the state, Lyngdoh said, “The chief minister should have taken a prudent decision of representing the interest of the state, arguing in the interest of the state rather than making it political or adding political color to the NITI Aayog meeting and staying away from it on political consideration.”
According to him, this is ‘unprecedented’ where the chief minister seems to have forgotten that he occupies that very important role of being the leader of the state and not the leader of the Congress legislature party.
“In this case the absence of the Chief Minister from the meeting of the NITI Aayog has demonstrated that he considers himself first the leader of the CLP rather than the chief minister of Meghalaya,” Lyngdoh said while warning that this will have serious ramifications in term of the plan allocation, the developmental activities given the financial crunch the state is going through.
Lyngdoh also informed that the meeting has registered its strong sense of resentment and disgust at the ‘total collapse’ of ‘governance’ in the state of Meghalaya.
“In spite of the Congress having secured 30 numbers of seats which is 50 per cent of the total seats in the state Assembly, there is not even a semblance of effective governance,” Lyngdoh said adding “The whole system seems to have collapse, there is no coordination right from the cabinet and major decision have been left pending for months together.”- By Our Reporter
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