BJP chief draws parallels between Congress in 2014 and NPP now

SHILLONG, Dec 6: State BJP president Ernest Mawrie took a jibe at the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) drawing parallels between the Congress in 2014 before it lost power and the NPP right now, while claiming that the “NPP is aware of its declining popularity and rising anger among the people against them.”
“The NPP is well aware of the fact that they have done nothing in the last 4.5 years for the people. They know that the people are ready to vote them out. And just like the drowning Congress in 2014 (before Lok Sabha elections), the drowning NPP is now on an inauguration and foundation stone laying spree,” Mawrie said.
According to the State BJP chief, most of the projects are being inaugurated in an incomplete state, and foundations stones are being laid with no proper planning or resource mobilisation. “This is too little, too late,” he said. “All this is being done to fool the voters into trusting the NPP once again.”
He claimed that most of the developmental work done in the state in the last 4.5 years has been under the BJP-led central government schemes. With regard to the FOCUS scheme, which Chief Minister Conrad Sangma holds dear to his heart, Mawrie questioned where is the money generated from.
“No amount of renaming and rebranding of central government schemes, or redirecting of central government funds is going to fool the people,” he said while asserting that people are in favour of bringing a BJP-led double engine government, just like Uttar Pradesh, in Meghalaya as well.