Prestone reveals lack of consultations in Cabinet

SHILLONG: The Congress’s rebel legislator Prestone Tynsong, who is set to join NPP, said on Monday many major decisions were not made known to the Cabinet by Chief Minister Mukul Sangma for wider discussions.
The former minister said when the new government assumes office in 2018 a blue print will be prepared for transparent and accountable governance.
Tynsong also criticised the chief minister for the basin development initiatives and other proposed mission mode interventions by saying these were the individual decisions of the chief minister without taking the Cabinet into confidence.
To a query whether he as a minister had made any voices of dissent against various wrong policies brought in by the chief minister in the Cabinet,  Tynsong said he had raised his reservations in other forums.
Another Congress minister said often the Cabinet agenda is circulated for just one hour before the meeting which makes it difficult for ministers to study the decisions to be taken for the larger interest of the people of the state.
In fact, the irony was that officers would know the agenda even before the ministers.
Earlier on Saturday, during a public meeting convened by NPP at Sohryngkham, Tynsong had said the MUA-II government is run by a company headed by one individual.
The rebel leader said he was also critical about the faulty Mission Organic policy and the government’s plan to carry out agar plantations without understanding the ground reality.