NPP misusing govt schemes to help its candidates: Hek

SHILLONG, Jan 14: Senior BJP leader Alexander L Hek tore apart the NPP for allegedly misusing government schemes and programmes to benefit its candidates.
The BJP leader was furious with the NPP leadership, including Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, as an ambulance sanctioned under the Chief Minister’s Special Development Fund (CMSDF) was inaugurated by his opponent and NPP candidate Rocky Hek in the Pynthorumkhrah constituency.
“This is not a violation of the rules but mistrust to the people. The ambulance was sanctioned under a government scheme, not through an NPP scheme. They had to go through the government or local representative and not through an aspiring candidate of their own party,” a livid Hek said on Saturday.
Terming it as “open cheating”, he said through such acts, the NPP leadership is not creating a bad precedence but the worst precedence. He accused the NPP leaders of indulging in questionable activities.
“In my 25-year career, I have not seen any government indulging in such activities,” Hek said.
Stating that he is not contesting the election against an NPP candidate but the entire NPP machinery is contesting against him, he said people are not commodities that they can be bought by money.
Asking the NPP not to take people for granted, he recalled that even the programme for the upgradation of the Mawryngkneng PHC to CHC was turned into a party programme.
The controversy erupted when NPP candidate Rocky Hek recently launched the ambulance donated to the Lumshyiap Dorbar Shnong. An amount of Rs 7 lakh was funded from the CMSDF for the ambulance.
In the same programme, Rocky had also handed the work order of Rs 10 lakh for the development of the football ground in the locality through the same fund.