TURA: The National People’s Youth Front (NPYF) has lambasted the Meghalaya Pradesh Youth Congress for demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma and Home Minister James K Sangma while terming their actions as immature.
“The fact that the situation was resolved tactfully with no casualties speaks volumes of the ability of the state government in addressing such a situation. NPYF expresses its gratitude to all the political parties, civil society organisations and pressure groups, the Rangbah Shnong, church elders and women’s organisations for showing their keen and untiring efforts to offer suggestions, to meet the government in finding ways to restore peace and normalcy. This is in stark contrast to the mishandling of the situation of the then home minister in 2005 where nine innocent persons lost their lives in Williamnagar and Tura,” it said in a statement.
On the question raised by MPYC on erratic power cuts, the youth body said why despite being in power for eight years, the previous government could not make any noticeable improvement in power infrastructure.
NPYF also said if the Congress youth wing is curious about the reason why the internet and SMS services were disabled, they should demand the names and numbers of the perpetrators who were inciting trouble by spreading “fake news” across the city limits and the state.
“It was fake news that brought about the untoward incident in the state. It is not that the government willingly disabled their services but rather to protect the people of the state from fake news. MPYC should be aware that shutting down of data services of telecom service providers is a standard operation procedure in many states across India and abroad,” it added.
