SHILLONG, JUNE 5: Even as he said that it is incorrect to blame only the media for the bandh called by banned militant organisations in the state, former home minister and MLCU vice chancellor Robert G Lyngdoh said chief minister Mukul Sangma and home minister Roshan Warjri have failed to carry along all the stakeholders to ensure that peace prevails in the state.
Commenting on the recent submission by Meghalaya DGP Rajiv Mehta to the Meghalaya high court to restrain the media from reporting bandh of the banned HNLC and other such organisations, Lyngdoh said, “Why blame only one stakeholder (media) everyone is equally responsible to ensure that the rule of law prevails.”
During his tenure as home minister, Lyngdoh was mainly responsible of neutralizing the militant outfit by putting the onus of aiding the HNLC on government contractors, businessmen and traditional head.
Lyngdoh said to blame the media for giving publicity to the banned outfit is but to simplify the issue of ‘bandh.’ He told this website on Friday, “The fight against militancy is not one-dimensional but multi-dimensional.”
Lyngdoh felt to successfully resolve the issue of militancy and its off-shoot like ‘bandh’, the political leadership must carry along the stakeholders and make them work together.
Lyngdoh, however, said that the chaos that appears today in the state that emits out of the many issues, including the bandh, shows that the state government has not been able to make all the stakeholders within and outside the government work in synergy.
Lyngdoh observed, “The legislative is trying to dominate, the judiciary is also trying to dominate with the executive (bureaucracy) withdrawing itself into the shell.” He said all these three wings of democracy- the legislative, executive and the judiciary- is working against each other instead of working with each other.
Lyngdoh concluded by saying that all these three organs must work in tandem instead of indulging in blame game holding a single stakeholder responsible. – By Our Reporter
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