From CK Nayak
CM attends to official business
New Delhi: Dissident State Congress leaders continued to push for a change of leadership in Meghalaya, while their main target – Chief Minister Mukul Sangma – went about with his official engagements in the national capital.
In what turned out to be a busy day for him, the Chief Minster first attended a meeting in the Union Finance Ministry followed by meetings with several groups of people at Meghalaya House during the course of the day and played host at a dinner for women Congress members of the State who were in Delhi to attend a convention convened by the Mahila Congress on the occasion of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s birth anniversary on Wednesday.
While Ampareen Lyngdoh attended the Mahila Congress Convention, Home Minister Roshan Warjri was present for the dinner. Both the women minister met the Chief Minister.
On the other hand, the dissident Congress leaders spent the day holding parleys among themselves with the support of Lok Sabha member Vincent H. Pala who, according to the dissidents, is supporting their cause.
The Chief Minister will stay back in Delhi on Thursday and might meet party president Sonia Gandhi who was unable to give him an audience on Wednesday because of the Mahila convention.
Sangma is also slated to meet other AICC leaders and attend the meeting of the state Tourism ministers convened by the Ministry of Tourism.
In the absence of the Chief Minister from Shillong, State Cabinet Minister Zenith Sangma will attend Thursday’s meeting of Chief Ministers of North Eastern States at Guwahati called by the DoNER Ministry.
Unconfirmed reports say that Sangma had a meeting with party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
The Chief Minister is pressing for a reshuffle in his Cabinet which is pending with the AICC.