Med student’s critique of CM
By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Sep 6: The TMC has launched a blistering attack on the NPP’s youth wing — National People’s Youth Front (NPYF) — branding its condemnation of a student as an act of political bullying and evidence of the ruling MDA government’s intolerance towards public scrutiny.
According to the party, the NPYF’s public statement against a young individual who questioned the government over the Tura Medical College project is not a defence of decorum but a “cowardly attempt” to muzzle youth voices. The TMC said the episode exposed the fragile ego of the Conrad Sangma-led dispensation, which appeared unwilling to entertain legitimate queries about the state’s controversial Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.
The opposition noted that the student’s intervention was a display of civic responsibility, something it alleged the MDA government had failed to show. Instead of providing clear answers about the medical college—whose infrastructure is nearly complete and has been built with public funds—the government, the TMC said, chose to hide behind its youth wing and launch a personal attack.
“This incident lays bare the true nature of the MDA government,” the TMC stated. “When faced with valid questions from a concerned citizen, their only response is to resort to public shaming and political strong-arming. This is not governance; this is dictatorship. The NPP and the NPYF owe the student, and the people of Meghalaya, an apology for attempting to silence a voice of reason.”
The party reiterated its demand that the project must be a fully state-run Tura Government College, declaring that excuses will no longer be tolerated. It called on the Chief Minister to retract the NPYF’s statement, end the practice of using political proxies to intimidate citizens, and come clean on the status of the project.
“A government that fears its own people has no right to lead,” the party said.