TURA, Feb 24: BJP state vice president, Bernard N Marak, on Wednesday accused political parties of taking advantage of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council’s autonomy and exploiting its resources. Marak has also maintained that the BJP is the only party that can restore the glory of the GHADC.
“GHADC gave away 80 per cent of its revenue to the state and most of the departments were taken over by the state government without constitutional sanction, resulting in great losses to the people and the Council as a whole. BJP wants to reform the anomalies in the Council. BJP is the only hope to revive GHADC to its old glory against all odds and crises,” Bernard said.
Alleging that neither the Congress nor the NPP can bring reforms to GHADC, Bernard accused the two parties of bringing the Council to such a deplorable position that it needs to beg from the state.
“The leaders are not taking the responsibility for the sorry state of the GHADC. Even now, the state leaders are working with the engineers of the civil works in Shillong to take out the money sanctioned to GHADC. They need the money for election expenses not for development or to solve the ongoing crisis in GHADC where the employees have ceased work,” the BJP vice president said.
Stating that people from Garo Hills must save the GHADC from being abolished, he exhorted them to pin faith on the BJP.