HYC releases 34-point questionnaire for political parties

The questionaires were released during the last day of the hunger strike staged by the HYC for the past three days, demanding the government to pass an official resolution in the ongoing Assembly’s winter session for implementing strong anti-influx laws in the state.

The HYC has given a 20-day ultimatum to the different political parties as well as aspiring candidates for the upcoming 2018 state elections to reply to the questions on issues relating to uranium mining, railway projects, municipal elections, inter-state border dispute, crimes against women and others.

While for other political parties, a 31-point questionnaire was prepared, the HYC however added three more questions particularly for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to reply on the relationship of the party with the RSS and Hindu religion.

Interestingly, the HYC however has opted out the ruling Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) besides the Independent legislators supporting the present state government for the exercise.

Addressing media persons at the end of the hunger strike here, HYC general secretary Robertjune Kharjahrin said, “We will immediately start circulating the questionnaires to all the different political parties from next week for them to reply back within 20 days.”

He informed that for aspiring candidates, the Council has tasked its members from the different districts to hand over the questionnaires to these candidates who are contesting from the different constituencies.

Stating that the questionnaires will not be served to the ruling Congress party, Kharjahrin said, “This is because of the fact that the Congress and the people supporting its government had already shown their attitude towards the issue.”

He said that the HYC is also not interested in serving the same to those rebel legislators, who are planning to leave the Congress party to join other parties, because “they were part of the government for last five years and had been part of its failures towards the people”.

For those MLAs who are part of the ruling Congress-led government, he said that “they are guilty by associating with the Congress”.

Asked, Kharjahrin said that if the political parties fail to include the 14-point of demands for strong anti-influx laws which include the ILP raised by the HYC in their manifestos, the HYC will launch a protest campaign against them in the upcoming state elections.

“We will however wait for the reply of these political parties but the protest campaign against the Congress will soon start,” he said.

Welcome the recent statement of a Congress MDC in KHADC PT Sawkmie that he is supporting the demand for implementation of ILP system in the state, the HYC leader however said, “We request him (Sawkmie) to urge the chief minister Mukul Sangma to pass the official resolution for implementing the ILP and other strong laws. But if not, we will be compelled to go against him because he is also guilty by association.”

“If the demand is not consider within the current session, then we suggest that he (Sawkmie, who is also aspiring to contest the MLA election from Mawlai) should avoid contesting from a Congress ticket,” he said

Meanwhile, the HYC has threatened to intensify its agitational programmes against the Congress-led state government under the leadership of chief minister Mukul Sangma if it fails to pass the official resolution within the current Assembly session which will end on December 14.

Kharjahrin said that the next course of action will immediately be announced after December 14.

By Our Reporter