SHILLONG: A flurry of questions about the policies of the BJP government was raised at the review and executive meeting of the Meghalaya Pradesh Youth Congress on Wednesday.
Youth Congress president Richard Marak questioned the BJP leaders “raising questions about what the Congress had done for the country”.
Marak, who apparently had answers to the saffron party’s questions, said “the roads you (BJP leaders) travel on, the airports you land on, the healthcare you receive and many more were done by Congress governments”.
He denounced the BJP government for the “demonetisation disaster”, sloppy implementation of GST and Aadhaar. While AICC chief Rahul Gandhi had termed the new tax regime as ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’, the unique identification numbers system has raised serious concerns after reports of alleged data leak.
Among the series of questions that the youth leader listed for BJP were on the saffron brigade’s intolerance, love jihad, anti-Romeo squads, the recent row over Taj Mahal and not to mention the ban on cow slaughter.
“If BJP would have ruled India since independence then there would’ve been only cows and no people in India by today,” he added.
Marak cited the story of two women claiming to be the mother of a child in the context of BJP coming to the rescue of hapless people. He said when the women were asked to cut the child into two pieces, the real mother gave up. “Will BJP too take us to such a test?”
He also criticised BJP for the spiralling fuel prices.
MPCC working president James Lyngdoh spoke about how the youth are the future of the party and the state as the whole and he reminded everyone present of the flagship programmes implemented by the Congress at the state and the central levels.
MLA Yashumati Thakur (state co-ordinator) said all the party workers and party leaders should leave their differences and work together in order to form a stable government.
Indrani Mishra, general secretary of the IYC and in charge of Meghalaya, asked the youth to be active in social media and work to form the next government.
Vincent Pala MP (working president MPCC) spoke at length about the work done by the Congress after independence in terms of health, GDP, military, scientific, education and that the “Congress also gave us a secular country”.
He also informed that the state government passed the VAB and sent it to Centre a long time back “but it is still lying with the Home Ministry”.
