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SHILLONG: After the Voice of the People Party (VPP) opted out of the state government’s newly formed all-party committee on railways, the Congress has followed suit, leaving the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)—the principal opposition party—as the sole opposition representative in the committee.
The Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has categorically rejected the initiative, accusing the government of using the committee as a political shield during times of administrative deadlock.
MPCC secretary Manuel Badwar did not mince words as he questioned the government’s motive behind constituting the panel. “The Congress will definitely will not be a part of this committee because we don’t believe whenever you are running into a sticky ground and you can’t decide on anything and you pull everybody together and blame everybody,” said Badwar.
He condemned what he described as the government’s selective approach to collaboration. “The view of the Congress is very clear. The government has not formed an all-party committee for many important things that are important for the state. They take the decision on their own because they have the majority. So it has been decided by the public at large for the MDA government to take decisions on their own. Now, whenever they’re stuck in some sticky ground or the other and they can’t move left or right or centre, they’d like to pull everybody into the bandwagon and blame everybody else. That’s not right.”
Badwar asserted that the Congress would not be a party to what it sees as an attempt to share blame while evading responsibility.
Badwar added, “To form an all-party committee, what do they mean? It’s just a hogwash just to whitewash everything and just to show people that look, we are trying to involve everybody. So if you want to involve everybody, and then involve everybody in everything — not just in one agenda or the other which you feel as if you’re in sticky ground. That’s not acceptable.”
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