Shillong, Sept 26: Few months away from the assembly election, the United Democratic Party (UDP) – a coalition partner of the Congress- is flexing its muscles as it has accused the Congress legislators of having a nexus with banned Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) whose chairman Champion R Sangma is undergoing trails after he was arrested.
The UDP said the Congress led government’s laxity in taking stringent action against an arrested militant chief “confirms” the nexus of the GNLA and its legislators.
UDP working president Paul Lyngdoh told reporters after the party’s CEC meeting Wednesday, “The non application of state (detention) laws like the Meghalaya Preventive Detention Act (MPDA) to the arrested chairman of the GNLA, Champion Sangma, confirms the Congress party nexus with militancy.”
Lyngdoh said said the treatment given to Champion Sangma “does not commensurate” with the degree of his criminal involvement for which detention laws like the MPDA ought to have been applied. He said the MPDA had been applied time and again even in the case of NGO leaders (protesting against the government) and petty criminals.
Lyngdoh accused the Congress led government of lacking “firmness” in dealing with the arrested GNLA chief and felt Champion R Sangma arrest have been stage managed. He said, “The decision not to book him under MPD Act appears to have been coloured by certain consideration which reconfirms of our views of the nexus. The party is clear and we suspect that there is a nexus if not wholly but partly congress and partly GNLA.”.
Champion Sangma had told reporters recently that he and the GNLA cadres will be supporting the Congress party in the Garo Hills region except in two constituencies even as he said he would be contesting the 2013 poll in the state.
While the Congress had distanced itself from the controversial “support” made public by the arrested GNLA chairman, Paul Lyngdoh said the party is circulating the resolutions to the Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, Chief Secretary W M S Pariat and a copy would also be sent to the Union Home secretary.
Commenting on the candidature of the persons with criminal records contesting in the forthcoming elections, Lyngdoh said the party is “strongly opposed” to criminals entering the electoral fray because they will subvert and destroy democracy.- By Our Reporter
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