SHILLONG: A day after KHADC chief executive member HS Shylla lambasted every political party, including the UDP and the NPP, over the issue of inner line permit, most of the political parties in the state are now training their guns on the KHADC chief.
NPP president WR Kharlukhi on Friday drew a biblical analogy of the donkey carrying Jesus Christ and asked Shylla to read the poem describing the boasting animal.
Stating that democracy allows everyone to question, Kharlukhi said, “There is a saying that if you want to see the real character of a person, you need to give him power and NPP made him the CEM of KHADC and the party now saw his real character.”
According to Kharlukhi, Shylla was speaking ill against everybody since he wants to contest the Lok Sabha election and “his intentions are clear in his speech”.
“The party always had discussions about different issues and everyone including the chief minister attended the party meetings but Shylla never attended the meetings,” he added.
On the other hand, UDP leader Allantry Dkhar said Shylla, “who calls himself High Speed Shylla”, seems to be facing a brake failure.
“Shylla has forgotten that he is staying in an era where district council is not the competent authority to come up with laws like inner line permit,” Dkhar added.
Accusing Shylla of misleading the crowd to believe that the MDA government is the stumbling block for ILP, Dkhar taunted Shylla’s “little knowledge”.
“It was UDP’s Bindo Lanong who, while heading a committee, had recommended implementation of ILP in the state. He hijacked the platform which was meant to inspire people to unite against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and took the entire platform towards the political angle and I will not be wrong to say that he is trying to create a situation wherein NGOs will prop him as their MP candidate,” Dkhar said.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Ampareen Lyngdoh said certain politicians who are finding faults with the Residents Safety and Security Bill should recommend another new bill. “It is too late for somebody who is exiting politics to give such big talks,” she added.
