Purno hosts dinner for BJP prez

SHILLONG: NPP leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker, PA Sangma, who is supporting the NDA Government at the Centre, hosted a dinner for BJP President Amit Shah at Hotel Polo towers here on Wednesday night.
Terming the meeting with Shah as a courtesy call Sangma said that personally he did not raise any issue with Shah as the NPP delegation led by its State President, WR Kharlukhi had in the evening met the BJP president to apprise him about various issues confronting the state.
Earlier NPP leader Conrad Sangma, who was part of the party delegation which met Shah, said that the deteriorating law and order situation in Garo Hills and the plight of the people resulting from the ‘inaction of State Government’ was made known to the BJP president.
“He (Shah) expressed serious concern over the matter and assured us that the law and order situation in the State will be taken up with the Home Minister and the Prime Minister,” Conrad said.