SHILLONG, DEC 24: The national spokesperson of the opposition All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) Saket Gokhale came down heavily on the BJP-NPP double-engine MDA Government calling it a corrupt and a blatant liar.
In a statement issued on Friday, Gokhale drew a comparison between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest speech in Shillong and his speech from 2017 where he attacked the then government for unutilized funds amounting to Rs 908 crores as per the CAG report in their 6 years of tenure, dismissing any development in Meghalaya.
Citing the latest CAG report, Gokhale cornered the NPP-led MDA Government and wrote, “In September 2022 (3 months ago), a report by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India was tabled in the Meghalaya Assembly and according to the report, at least 62 projects in Meghalaya are incomplete beyond their scheduled date of completion. Some of these projects have overshot the completion deadline by as long as 10 years.â€
Gokhale further took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2017 speech, pointing at the hypocrisy of the current NPP-led MDA government and wrote, “Since 2018, a total of 32 projects worth over ₹1,638 crores are incomplete and the expenditure incurred so far is ₹214.37 crores. While PM Modi was ‘concerned’ about ₹908 crores of unutilized funds in 2017, he is now conveniently silent about the ₹1,638 crores (almost DOUBLE) of projects that are pending under the watch of the BJP-NPP ‘double engine’ MDA government of Conrad Sangma.â€
“The CAG also categorically said that this delay had resulted in denial of basic facilities and benefits to the people of Meghalaya,†he added.
