SHILLONG, Dec 26: Shillong MP Vincent Pala slammed the National People’s Party (NPP)-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government over the state’s poor financial condition.
“After a lion hunts a zebra in the animal kingdom, all animals will eat from the carcass. There won’t be any fight as long as there is flesh. The fight will begin when only the bones are left. In Meghalaya, the MDA constituents are fighting as only the bones are now left,” Pala said with reference to charges of corruption levelled against the MDA by its constituent BJP.
He said the BJP was acting as the lion, trying to sever the head of the zebra which is the NPP.
Stating that the bones would be eaten up over the next two years, the Congress MP said a time would come when not just the constituents of the MDA, the public too would go after the government if it does not change its alleged corrupt style of governance.
He said the state was facing a financial crisis as evident from non-payment of salaries to several important service providers.
He said the state was surviving on loans taken from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. He asked the government to plug the alleged leakage of revenues even as he accused it of misusing power over the last two and half years.
On the route from Khliehriat to Guwahati, there are not less than 17 check gates of various agencies, including the police, but on the New Delhi-Guwahati route, there is just one such gate on the West Bengal-Assam border, Pala said.