SHILLONG: The Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) released the “anti-Congress” pamphlet along with a list of 28 issues that the party has not fulfilled in the run-up to the elections.
Addressing reporters on Monday, president of HYC Peter Lawai said the party does not take issues like Inner Line Permit (ILP), influx of immigrants, uranium and railways seriously.
The organisation also criticised the Congress for putting up non-tribal candidates Abu Taher Mondal from Phulbari, Azad Zaman from Rajabala and Manas Chaudhuri from South Shillong.
“It is a party that gave tickets to non-Garos in the GHADC elections. No doubt, they will do the same in KHADC and JHADC,” Lawai said.
HYC also flayed the Congress for not implementing the Meghalaya Lokayukta, pending issue of the Village Administration Bill (VAB), encroachment of MUDA.
The organisation further added that the Congress did not pay heed to problems like teachers’ salary and delayed scholarships to students.
When asked on their anti-Congress move, general secretary of the HYC Robert Kharjahrin said this was part of their Clean Congress campaign that started last year. He went on to add that it was not only about the anti-Congress campaign but the organisation also distributed pamphlets against the BJP.
Kharjahrin said that the people should not accept the BJP as it is a party which is very close to the RSS and are Hindutva fanatics, a party which is anti-minority, a party that brought the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2016.
He added that the party also threatened to remove the word “Secular” from the Preamble and move to bring one India, one religion, one culture.
“It is also a party that forces Hindi language without respecting the multi-lingual nature of the country,” he said, adding that it is a party that framed the Anti-Conversion law and a party that interfered in the food habits of the people.
