BJP hit back at NPP over GHADC crisis

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaJanuary 29, 2020

SHILLONG: BJP state president Ernest Mawrie on Wednesday hit back at the National People’s Party (NPP) for alleging that the BJP was sharing the same bed with the opposition Congress in the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC).

Mawrie was reacting to the statement of the NPP president that he is not content on the issue of the so-called political drama in the GHADC. “The NPP president will do well to remember that NPP elected members are old wine in a new bottle,” the BJP president said in a statement issued here.

He said MDC of any political party can always maintain his or her own identity in the council and when any member is not gratified with the style of functioning of the ruling side, who desired to cling to their seats even after reducing to minority, the door is always for the aggrieved member to align with the party having the majority in the council, simple logic.

“His statement becomes much less convincing as the ‘pot calling the kettle black’ fogging the issues with unrelated information which are totally nonsense, trying to portrayed the half-truth proclamation as reality,” Mawrie said.

Stating that the BJP is less likely to be vulnerable at the attempt of dividing the party be at the state as well as at the council level, the BJP president said the deflection happens when the present executive council is facing the real problem, other than other issues of mis-management of the affairs of the council.

“…the challenge to replace the present EC with little or no authority, is an endeavor to put things right in the affairs of the GHADC, indefinitely,” he said adding that the deceit of the present EC may be better known to the people of the region and let the people know what has occurred.