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BJP chargesheet Congress government in Meghalaya

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Shillong, Feb 8: The BJP on Thursday released a 38-point “charge sheet” against the ruling Congress party government in poll-bound Meghalaya and exposed three cabinet ministers for their alleged involvement in corruption and sex racket.

The charge sheet released by Union Tourism Minister, K.J.Alphons, was aimed at to highlight the misdeeds of the Mukul Sangma-led government ahead of the Februarys 27 assembly polls.

“People need to analyse and think loud and clear. They should stop the Congress from cheating and stealing from them again. We appealed to the people of Meghalaya to give BJP a chance to bring about rapid development and clean and transparent government,” Alphons said.

In the chargesheet “15 years of loot, 15 of destruction”, the saffron party accused former Independent candidate Julius Dorphang of running a sex-racket at the guest house owned by Home Minister H.D.R.Lyngdoh’s son Nathaniel Osbert Rymbai.

Dorphang has also filed his nomination papers seeking re-election from jail for Mawhati assembly constituency.

Public Works Department Minister, Ampareen Lyngdoh was also named in the BJP’s booklet for her involvement into the teachers and police recruitment scam, while Congress minister Clement Marak was accused of being involved in the 2016 sugar scam.

The BJP also named former Congress legislator Stanly Wiss Rymbai in the Rs eight crore land scam in Ri-Bhoi district.

Intriguingly, the “medicine scam” and “M-Tab distribution scam” which hit media headlines when Alexander Hek was the Health and Family Welfare minister besides Information and Technology minister did not find a mention in the chargesheet.

Hek, who was a cabinet minister in the Mukul Sangma-led ministry had quit the Congress and re-joined the BJP.

However, Hek rubbished the allegations saying that these “scams did not take place during his tenure as cabinet minister in the Mukul Sangma-led government.”

Alphons also attacked Chief Minister Mukul Sangma for his sarcastic statement on development whereby he stated that if the Congress has brought so much development while it was sleeping, as alleged by the rival parties, imagine what he could have achieved if he was awake.

“Yes he (Sangma) is sleeping. What has he done other than shielding his corrupt ministers. He takes credit for what the BJP government has done so far. He talks about good roads being built by him, tell me where are the motorable roads other than the national highways, which are being constructed and funded directly by the Centre,” he said.

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