SHILLONG: After allegations of MLA fund misappropriation, South Shillong legislator and NCP leader Sanbor Shullai has been accused of nepotism.
The reply to an RTI application filed this August by CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing said Laban MDC Ricky Shullai is allegedly working as peon in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly even as he has won the by-election to KHADC last December.
Ricky is the nephew of the local MLA.
The matter was brought to the fore by Victorian Marbaniang and Disiona Passah, who are residents of Shillong South.
Marbaniang told reporters on Monday that there are many unemployed youth in Raid Laban but five members of Sanbor’s family have been appointed for different posts at the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.
According to the information provided by the Public Information Officer (PIO) at the Assembly, the women said Sanbor’s three children and two nephews are employed in different temporary posts.
The relatives are Ricky, Evangeline Rabon, who holds the post of reviser, M. Rabon as junior watch and ward, Venessa Rabon as PA to Deputy Speaker and Wansalan Shullai as assistant librarian.
Asked whether they have put up an advertisement, Passah said, “If there was such an advertisement, then wouldn’t our children also apply for the same?”
The women came up with the RTI query after they were annoyed with Sanbor who had called them beneficiaries of welfare schemes meant for poor people.
Alleging that Sanbor is wasting money, Passah said, “There are statues everywhere… it is a wastage of money. Constructing a statue is an expensive matter. Instead of erecting statues, he should donate the money or rice to the poor in the constituency.”
