CM leaves it to MDA MLAs to take a call

“And in regards to me stepping down I think the MLAs of the coalition partners have to decide. It is not my decision to say whether I will step down or not. It is the MLAs of the different coalition partners that will take the call as they are the ones who have elected me so they are the ones who will decide,” Sangma told reporters.

He was reacting to a query on the demand of the BJP, which is one of the MDA partners, that the Chief Minister should either bring a CBI probe into the collapse of the dome of the new Assembly building or resign from the chief minister’s post.

Sangma however said, “Inquiry has to be done by a technical body and that is why IIT has to come in and we are going through the details of that and we have to await the reply and the report submitted by the technical institutions that are there.”

On Monday, BJP MDC from Tura Bernard Marak had dared Conrad Sangma to bring in CBI or to resign from his Chief Minister’s post.

“While appointing Conrad Sangma as the Chief Minister, BJP anticipated good governance and all round development of the State with zero corruption but Chief Minister rebuked BJP through action and failed miserably to live up to the aspirations of the people,” he had said.

Marak had alleged: “Everyone is disappointed as the poor remain poor and weak perished, including the youths who are stranded without job opportunities. They made their parties grow with public money which can’t be tolerated. Chief Minister Conrad Sangma should agree for CBI inquiry or step down bearing moral responsibility.”

Marak said that people are disappointed and have lost faith in Conrad’s leadership adding “therefore BJP wants him to step down owning moral responsibility for all the corruption lapses which erupted around the state.”

Meanwhile, the chief minister had termed the allegation that the contractors of the Assembly building are also being engaged for construction of the National People’s Party (NPP) state office as completely false.

“That is completely false. I would like to clarify that they are not constructing the NPP office,” he said.

When asked, Sangma said “Those are tender process that take place and those tender processes will process as per tender documents and as per tender requirement so in that it could be any contractor who has the thing – they have a record, they have been working, they have constructed massive bridges over the Brahmaputra so obviously their credentials are there and based on that they must have applied and they must have got that is a procedure that is normally followed in any tender process and that has nothing to do with me particularly in that it is a tender process but since you ask about NPP office I am clarifying that it is completely false.”

By Our Reporter