From Our Correspondent
JOWAI: A number of JHADC Congress MDCs supporting Lamdibok Sumer are camping in New Delhi to press upon the AICC leaders to end the political impasse in the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council (JHADC) which has been under Administrative Rule for over four months now.
Speaking to this Correspondent over phone from the national capital, one of the MDCs informed that the group had met some AICC leaders including general secretary in-charge Meghalaya, Sanjay Bapna, to discuss the political crisis in the Council.
“They (AICC leaders) expressed that the MPCC should find a better solution of the issue and summon all the 27 Congress MDCs once again to elect their leader so that the four months old Administrative rules could be lifted’, he said.
“Following the meeting, the AICC leader has called up the MPCC to find a solution to the JHADC issue,” he informed, while adding, “We hope that the matter would be resolved within two to three days.”
It may be mentioned that but Lamdibok Sumer and newly-elected JHADC CPP leader Hambertus Nongtdu have both been claiming majority support in the Council.
Nongtdu, earlier, had claimed the support of 15 Congress MDCs and two Independents – Moonlight Pariat and Edmund Speakerson Lyngdoh, while last week Sumer had claimed the support of 16 Congress MDCs and one UDP member.
Sumer, who earlier, had 12 MDCs on his side has now received a shot in the arm with four members including Mukroh-Barato MDC Rio Sten, Shangpung MDC Kilometer Lyttan, Shangpung South MDC Wanbiang Shadap and Ummulong MDC Laitsing Shylla withdrawing their support to Nongtdu and joining the former’s camp.
The four members who joined the Sumer camp have claimed that they have submitted their written statements to the MPCC president and also to all Jaintia Hills legislators mentioning their support to Sumer.
However, MPCC president Friday Lyngdoh recently reiterated that the party had elected Nongtdu as the CPP leader in the Council and he was the party choice to lead the next Executive Committee as the Chief Executive Member.
