SHILLONG: Following the assertion of the Ministry of Home Affairs that the Meghalaya government was free to hold elections to the GHADC at any time, the Opposition NPP has criticized the chief minister for fooling the people and the ANVC and ANVC-B by delaying the elections to the Council.
Speaking to The Shillong Times, NPP legislator James Sangma said that the chief minister’s excuses were plenty on the delay in holding GHADC elections and, moreover, the delay had served only the personal interests of the Chief Minister.
The NPP legislator alleged that the democratic process of holding elections to GHADC was scuttled illegally and unconstitutionally and demanded that the chief minister should immediately declare elections.
One of the main reasons why the chief minister delayed the elections was that he was not confident of winning the polls due to the adverse situation affecting the Congress in Garo Hills on all fronts, the NPP leader claimed.
Blaming the chief minister as solely responsible for the mess in the GHADC, the NPP leader wanted to know whether the tenure of the GHADC will be for five years once elections are held or just three and a half years as one and half years have already lapsed with the three-time extension of the Council’s tenure.
