Don't lecture us on power scenario: National People's Party (NPP) to Congress

A REPORTER

SHILLONG: The spokesperson of National People's Party (NPP), Meghalaya, Nickey Nongkhlaw said that for eight years while the Mukul Sangma-led Congress government was in power, the State faced power cuts for at least four months every year, for more than four hours every day and that too in the period when students appeared for board exams.

That is about 3,840 hours or 160 days of complete blackout for the people of Meghalaya which the Congress government deliberately put the people through. Today, the Congress party is giving lectures on the power department, he said.

"We are not surprised that Mukul and Zenith are desperately trying to build a public image and repeatedly trying to fool the public on the same issue," Nongkhlaw said on Tuesday. He said that the Meghalaya Congress had undergone restructuring recently after months of power struggle and infighting, at the centre of which was Mukul Sangma who was trying to pull all strings by himself.

Further, he said that Mukul Sangma's image and control over the party was now at stake, whereby he and his brother Zenith were feeling threatened in the run-up to the 2023 elections with Vincent Pala in-charge of the party.

He said that Zenith in his recent statement spoke about leasing out MeECL assets to private entities, despite the Chief Minister having clearly mentioned in the past that there was no question of giving away MeECL assets to private bodies. "Hence, Zenith's statement on NITCON is simply laughable and goes to show how he and his brother appear unprepared in front of the media with no research or facts whatsoever," he said.

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