TURA: The FKJGP in Garo Hills have condemned the statement of Meghalaya Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma implying that the NGOs spearheading the protests against the participation of non-tribals in the upcoming GHADC polls have links with local insurgents and should be investigated upon for having anti-national agendas.
In a statement issued here late on Wednesday evening the federation said that the protest against the participation of non-tribals in GHADC is the collective conscience of A’chiks and that no NGO or individual can instigate the issue.
“Does the Chief Minister doubt the collective intellect of the Garo community or is it that he anticipates Garos will always be mute spectators despite being suppressed all the time,” Pritam Marak, the President of the FKJGP questioned.
Hitting out at the Chief Minister for bringing a communal twist to the issue Marak pointed out that no tension had arisen at any time since the protest against the participation of non-tribals in the elections began and demanded to know why he failed to see a communal angle when the non-tribal minorities had demanded a separate plain belt district a few years back.
“Why does the CM see a communal angle when at this point the Garos are peacefully voicing for their political autonomy? Is this an indication that the rumors the CM rely on the minority vote bank politics for his survival stands true?” he said.
Marak further stated that the Government’s ‘poor antic’ of attempting to portray the agitating NGOs as having nexus with militants would not convince the people of Garo Hills and urged it to first focus on the politico-militant and police-militant nexus which raised its head time and again in the affairs of the Meghalaya Government.
