Editor
I wish to heartily congratulate all young students who successfully qualified in the Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) Examinations (Science & Commerce) of MBOSE, and to all those who will join the party after the result from other boards in the next few days. Your sincerity, discipline and hard work towards your studies, and of course, the able guidance of your teachers and parents has paid off. You have done your duty as a student and made us all proud. Keep it up and keep excelling in your field of choice. Now the people of Meghalaya have to do their duty to prevent you from being corrupted, frustrated and diverted. In the next 5 to 10 years after you complete your studies, the Government should be able to provide you opportunity to serve the State and the country simply by basing on your merit, sincerity, hard work and dedication. To this end, the people of Meghalaya have to do their bit to provide a clean and corruption-free government in the near future. None of you should require backing or recommendations from MP/MLA/MDC/Parliamentary Secretaries/Chairmen/Co-Chairmen/Ex-Ministers/Bureaucrats etc. to get a job to serve the State. Your merit and only merit should be counted. Those who enter Government jobs through backdoor via bribe/recommendations/nepotism with no merit whatsoever, will invariable take bribes and propagate backdoor entry at the cost of deserving and meritorious candidates. Such undeserving appointees will never be able to steer the ship of development but will continually be involved in looting the public money and thereby people’s share of development, of course aided and blessed by their political masters. Dear young Meghalayans, I am confident that things are not going to be the same in the near future. So keep working hard and it will pay you back. Congrats to all of you once again!
Yours etc.
Dr. Lakhan Kma
Shillong-4
Kejriwal in the heat of controversy
Very few persons are born leaders. They are certainly boons to the society. And most of the others who scramble to be public leaders by fair means or foul, end up being just a “liability”. They usually mislead the crowd and finally bring only misfortune to the nation. I don’t think anyone disagrees that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is a maverick character. With the roar of his hollow rhetoric, he showed his different maverick avatars on different occasions. The unsuspecting people, who just got carried away, are now only regretting.
Is it not a big irony that one who determinedly stood as a crusader against corruption is now neck deep in it. Even one good at counting may fail to give full records in how many counts the Delhi CM proved himself as a dangerous hypocrite, and diplomatically a failed leader. Now a very annoyed Minister Kapil Mishra, who has been recently sacked by the Chief Minister, is threatening to drag his boss into the height of the controversies. Other opponents of other parties are having the last laugh!
By the way, given his series of tantrums and bad mouthing of other rivals, particularly against PM Modi, Arvind Kejriwal has now almost dragged himself into the pit of no return. However, with all his footprints in his short political journey, we have got a very clear message that we should not trust any leader no matter how “holy” they claim to be. Yes, we have to take the words of our leaders with a pinch of salt.
Yours etc.,
Salil Gewali
Shillong-2