SHILLONG: Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, who was criticised by BJP for not debating on development, has hit back at saffron party leader Nalin Kohli calling him a “shouting spectator”.
“There is a beautiful quote from late president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam where he says in a game, it is the audience that shouts and the players don’t respond to them and here I am a player and he is an audience,” Sangma told reporters on Saturday.
On Kohli’s remark on Assam MP Gaurav Gogoi, Sangma said the BJP leader called Gogoi an outsider but “since when did Kohli become a resident of Meghalaya”.
Kohli had taunted Sangma on Friday saying he was outsourcing BJP’s debate challenge to Gogoi.
Sangma while castigating the BJP leader said if Kohli really wanted to know about the development of the State, he should have visited Meghalaya at least 5-7 years back and then do a comparison.
“It’s like advertising where they show the before and after effects of using a slimming product and such rhetoric does not work,” Sangma said.
