SHILLONG, Feb 18: TMC leader Mukul Sangma on Saturday attacked BJP for Union Home Minister Amit Shah terming Meghalaya as No. 1 corrupt state in the country.
Taking strong exception to Shah’s remarks, Sangma, who held three back-to-back meetings in Gambegre, Rongara Siju and Raksamgre in the Garo Hills region, said that people from all over the world heard the Union Home Minister’s statement which was broadcast on TV and on BBC.
“Did you like our beautiful state to be called corrupt? I urge everyone who didn’t like Mr. Amit Shah’s remark must unite now and vote for a change,” he said.
Questioning the BJP’s silence Mukul Sangma alleged that the BJP was hand in glove with the MDA in every scam that has emerged during their term.
“We have been raising our voice over the blatant corruption in the state from the past 2 to 3 years, and even wrote to the PMO for an inquiry but nothing happened just because every party in the MDA coalition were engrossed in it,” Sangma, who is the Leader of the Opposition, said. Earlier in Gambegre, Mukul launched a scathing attack on the NPP-led MDA government on corruption. In his address to the public, the TMC leader said, “Now Mr. Shah is terming the entire state as corrupt because of this corrupt government’s deeds of which they were a part, not us. One can see the hypocrisy clearly.”
