Opp Cong serves notice to Meghalaya CM for ‘misleading’ the House

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMarch 12, 2021

Congress legislator from Rangsakona Zenith Sangma on Friday served a notice to the Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma alleging him of misleading the House in regards to the PPA signed with the National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) in 2007.

This came after the opposition has decided to move a motion against Conrad K Sangma for commiting breach of privilege while replying to a pending motion related to failure of governance and deterioration of law and order in the state in the Assembly on March 9.

“…I am serving the notice to inform you that a motion on breach of privilege under Rule 158 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly will be raised by me on Monday,” Zenith said in his letter to the chief minister.

“You have deliberately mislead the August House on March 9 that the government is now helpless and will be compelled to pay the NTPC at Rs 11 crore x 12 = Rs 133 crore per year and Rs 133 crore x 25 = Rs 3,325 crore for total period of 25 years for now drawing power and by further deliberately hiding the operational part of para 2.2.4 and para 12.0 of the PPA between NTPC and MeSEB; operational part of the tripartite agreement (TPA) signed on March 20, 2003 by government of Meghalaya, Government of India and Reserve Bank of India (RBI), all of which governed the content and spirit of the PPA and by hiding the operational part of Section 26; Section 62 and other relevant sections of the Electricity Act 2003 and thereby misleading the August House,” he wrote.

Terming it as highly malicious to create false perception and bad taste in the House, Zenith said, “The information furnish by you before the August House is in complete deviation from the actual content and intent of the power purchase agreement (PPA) between the NTPC and Meghalaya State Electricity Board (MeSEB) signed on July 13, 2007.”