SHILLONG National People’s Party (NPP) state Chief, WR Kharlukhi has reiterated that administrator’s rule should be imposed in both Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) and the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) to bring stability those bodies.
Pointing out that the Governor, Tataghata Roy was very wrong in rejecting the recommendation of the state Government to impose administrator’s rule in the KHADC, Kharlukhi said that the immediate effect of it was the GHADC and this would have further impacted the JHADC.
Acknowledging and informing that the NPP MDCs are returning, Kharlukhi, however, said in spite of the NPP getting the majority, he would still prefer that administrator’s rule should be imposed to set things right so that at least people coming from outside as administrator should know the real situation of the state.
It may be mentioned that the opposition Congress had moved a no-confidence motion against the UDP -NPP led executive committee in the council which led to its fall as few NPP MDCs had also voted against the ruling.
The same was replicated in the GHADC and despite the state government’s recommendation to the Governor to impose administrators rule in the council citing instability, the Governor had rejected it and this led to similar scenes in GHADC.
The NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) earlier had maintained that they would prefer the imposition of Administrator’s Rule (AR) in the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) even after the United Democratic Alliance or UDA regaiened majority in the Council.
There are claims that at present in the House of 29, the United Democratic Alliance has the support of 16 MDCs with the recent joining of independent MDC from Nongshken constituency, Grace Mary Kharpuri and Congress MDC from Mairang-Nongkhlaw, Batskhem Ryntathiang.
The strength of United Democratic Front (UDF) had been reduced to 12 minus the chairman of the Council.