UDP targets Cong for corruption, BJP for bigotry

JOWAI: In a scathing attack on the Chief Minister, UDP working president Bindo M Lanong said Mukul Sangma is the most corrupt Congress CM.
Addressing hundreds of party supporters at an annual general meeting organised by the UDP’s Khliehriat circle at Khliehriat West community hall on Saturday, Lanong said, “Meghalaya is under great debt from the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, besides local contractors, MTC and the Power Department. He (Mukul) is the most corrupt Congress chief minister.”
Lanong added that the Congress should not be re-elected in the 2018 Assembly election.
UDP’s state general secretary Jemino Mawthoh also echoed the senior party leader’s view and added that several states have voted the Congress out for its corrupt practices.
Mawthoh slammed BJP accusing the saffron party of trying to divide the people of the country on religious lines.
“BJP wants India to be a Hindu nation,” he said adding that cow trading and beef eating were not allowed in BJP-ruled states, where offenders will be punished with seven years in jail or life imprisonment.
He urged the people of the State not to support “such a communal political party”. “BJP has declared Christmas as Good Governance Day and Good Friday as Digital India Day in order to discriminate against the minority Christians,” he said.
Among other leaders present in the meeting were UDP president Donkupar Roy, working president Alantry Dkhar and the party’s Jaintia Hills president Moonlight Pariat.
New office bearers of the Khliehriat circle were also elected in the meeting.