SHILLONG: Chairman of Meghalaya Youth Foundation (MYF), Johannes Lamare, while reacting to a legal notice issued to him by Nongkrem legislator Ardent Basaiawmoit, has claimed that the MLA’s claims on a road project was published by vernacular dailies on November 8.
In a statement issued here, Lamare said, “Instead of clarifying his statement he (Basaiawmoit) is sending me a legal notice. The MLA had himself stated that the delay in implementing a Centrally-sponsored scheme for construction of a road in Laitkor sanctioned at Rs 1 crore had lapsed due to delay in its implementation.”
Lamare reiterated that the scheme was made public by Basaiawmoit three days before the Assembly elections in the State, when he had informed a public gathering during an election campaign held at Madan Kynton-U-Mon, Nongkrem that the sanctioned amount for the construction of the said road is over Rs 1 crore.
Recently, Basaiawmoit’s attorney had shot off a legal notice to MYF chairman for his allegations in a section of the media relating to anomalies in the MLA scheme. Lamare was asked to ‘prove the disappearance of the scheme’ failing which he was directed to tender an unconditional apology by publishing it in a local daily within fifteen day of the notice.