SHILLONG, Jan 11: State All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) president Charles Pyngrope on Tuesday castigated the BJP for saying that the AITC was playing the religious card in Meghalaya.
“Let us not take BJP at face value, they are non-existent in the state. If we have a political agenda, what do they have?” he asked.
State BJP president Ernest Mawrie had slammed the AITC for crediting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the restoration of the FCRA license of the Missionaries of Charity (MoC).
FCRA expands to Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
Mawrie said the AITC was trying to make its presence felt by playing a political game on religious lines.
Referring to the West Bengal polls last year, Pyngrope asked: “If AITC had no agenda, do you think they would have come to power with such a huge number against a big party like BJP?”
On the FCRA registration of the MoC that the Centre had initially frozen and later restored, he said, “There are thousands of accounts but for one reason or the other they had frozen and when that happened AITC raised their voice like they did in the past to unfreeze the account because the lives of many destitute people, the sick and physically disabled were at stake.”
Pyngrope said it was very sad that the Centre had initially attacked the MoC and other organisations engaged in humanitarian work.
