SHILLONG: At a time when Congress-run state governments all over the country must be fearing attempts at destabilization by BJP, a report that Congress minister of Meghalaya AL Hek has met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh may not come as music to the ears of the Mukul Sangma government in the State.
Hek denied on Tuesday meeting the Union Home Minister, who is also the BJP president. “I have not met Rajnath Singh in the last three to four years,” he said adding “I am still a Congress man”.
But sources claimed that the meeting had taken place and cited the list of recent visitors to Singh.
The reasons for the concern were more because Hek had been a BJP legislator three times and had lately joined Congress, political observers said. According to the reports, Hek had met Rajnath Singh in Delhi to discuss “political developments” in Meghalaya.
The reports said Hek had tried to convince the BJP chief to consider the saffron party’s role in exploring political “opportunities” in Meghalaya where internal rift in the ruling Congress had been plaguing the party for past several months, particularly since the Lok Sabha polls.
BJP sources assured, however, that the BJP central leaders were not keen to disturb the Congress-ruled states, discounting apprehensions that after BJP’s coming to power, the political situation in the Congress-ruled states would change.
“The Central BJP leadership does not want to engage in any toppling game in any of the Congress-ruled states”, a State BJP leader said.