By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Jan 19: The AICC has predicted that the NPP in Meghalaya will eventually be swallowed by the BJP.
It has also questioned the BJP’s silence on the corruption in the MDA Government and slammed it for working against minorities.
Speaking to media persons here on Thursday, AICC media coordinators Bobbeeta Sharma and Matthew Anthony said the BJP penetrated Assam by riding piggyback on the Asom Gana Parishad and almost swallowed it later.
The NPP will have a similar fate, they said.
Alleging that the BJP does not respect regionalism, Anthony said the regional constituents of the MDA have fallen in line with the BJP out of fear and not love.
“If you don’t fall in their line, the CBI and ED will be knocking at your doors the next day and this is why the regional parties feel threatened,” he said.
Sharma said BJP State president Earnest Mawrie had called the MDA corrupt but did not show earnestness in following up on the graft charges. “The BJP did nothing apart from talking about corruption,” she said.
The AICC coordinators also said Meghalaya needs young policymakers, which is why the party is fielding young and fresh faces.
They pointed to reports that multiple incriminating documents were planted in the computer of Father Stan Swamy, the 83-year-old activist-priest who was arrested for alleged terror links in 2020. He died a year later.
