SHILLONG: The Opposition Alliance in the KHADC – PDF– has thrown an open challenge to the ruling coalition – ARPA — to allow it to head the Executive Committee for a month to bring “the administration of the Council back on track.”
“We are aware that the EC under ARPA has failed miserably to carry out its duties especially in this crunch situation when the Council is facing the problem of financial crunch,” PDF chairman Pynshngain N Syiem said here on Wednesday.
He called upon the ruling coalition to give them a month’s time to prove their capability of leading the Council in a more efficient and effective manner.
“We will again allow ARPA to take over the EC if we fail to prove our capability,” Syiem said.
The PDF chairman also said the ARPA is now a minority only 14 (without counting the Council’s Chairperson) and the Opposition Alliance enjoys the support of 15 MDCs.
On the issue of having an all-party EC, he reiterated his support to such an arrangement.”But the EC should be led by PDF and not ARPA,” the PDF chairman said.
Meanwhile, while making it clearly that he had quit KHNAM for its poor leadership, the PDF Parliamentary Party (PP) leader Process T Sawkmie has hit back by terming that the accusations levied against him by KHNAN chief Pyndapborthiaw Saibon as “Pyndapbor’s Propaganda Politics”.
The KHNAM leader on Tuesday had alleged that Sawkmie switched allegiance to the Opposition Alliance after he failed to convince the Executive Committee to give ‘green signal’ to the proposed uranium mining in West Khasi Hills.
“The fact is that the issue of uranium mining was never discussed in the EC. This is a blatant attempt to defame me in the eyes of the public,” Sawkmie said on Wednesday.
The PDF PP leader also asserted that he will strongly opposed to any attempt to give permission to the proposed uranium mining.
“I want to assure that in the next four years as member of the Council I will continue to oppose any move to pave way for mining of uranium in the State,” Sawkmie said.
