SHILLONG: The banned HNLC on Thursday targeted both Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and his Cabinet colleague Deborah Marak for using militants to win elections.
The outfit said it has enough evidence to prove that Sangma wanted its help for the 2018 Assembly elections.
HNLC publicity secretary Sainkupar Nongtraw said the group can submit the proof to Sonia Gandhi’s office but would refrain from doing so because it might be tampered. Nongtraw dared Sangma to hand over the case to the National Investigation Agency, as demanded by NPP leader James Sangma.
“If the chief minister does not hand over the probe to NIA then it will be proved beyond doubt that he is guilty and hiding the truth,” he said.
Sangma was once close to the chairman of the now disbanded ANVC, Dilash Marak, and it was due to his intervention that a peace agreement was reached at, HNLC said in a statement.
The outfit also alleged that Deborah had links with GNLA whom she used to win elections.
“It was the Government of India under the Congress during Jawaharlal Nehru’s regime that kidnapped Sib Sing Syiem and it was the Congress that prevented Wickliffe Syiem from entering the Hynniewtrep. It was this party that violated the standstill agreement of 1947. It was the Indian National Congress under the leadership of Nehru that was responsible for forcefully signing the Instrument of Accession and Annexed Agreement at gunpoint,” the HNLC statement added.
Attacking the government on the conviction of Chief Secretary K.S Kropha in an alleged coal scam case, the outfit said at this juncture, it is difficult for the chief minister to distinguish between criminals like them and Kropha.
“The education scam will also come into light soon. The high-level official involved and MLA Ampareen Lyngdoh might face the same music as faced by Kropha,” the outfit added.
