SHILLONG, Sept 13 – The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) today tabled a no confidence motion in the Assembly against the Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance Government.
Opposition leader Conrad Sangma (NCP) tabling the motion said that the Council of Ministers have been found “wanting” to bring overall development in the State and also failed to maintain law and order.
He added that the current Assembly session was too short and there was no other way to discuss crucial issues relating to the government’s failure, but tabling the no confidence motion.
The Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, after initially resisting the admission of the motion, said, the government was ready to face such motion anytime.
“Let the motion be discussed tomorrow or even today,” Sangma challenged. His confidence comes from the fact that the present government enjoys a comfortable majority with 43 MLAs in the House of 60 members.
Speaker Charles Pyngrope said he was “bound by rules” and admitted the motion. He announced that a date would be fixed later today through a bulletin for discussion of the motion in the House.
Civic polls: Objecting to the government’s insistence in trying to hold municipal elections only in Garo Hills, the opposition NCP today said it amounted to “testing the sentiments of the people of Garo Hills.”
Opposition leader Conrad Sangma asked from the government why it was adamant to hold the municipal elections only in Garo Hills and not elsewhere in the State.
“Is the government testing the sentiments of the people in Garo Hills and then hold similar elections in other parts of the State,” Sangma said during the question hour, while objecting to the government’s decision to unsuccessfully hold the elections in the four wards of Garo Hills on several occasions.
Garo Hills has erupted in violent protest every time the government decided to hold the municipal elections in the four wards of Tura, Williamnagar, Resubelpara and Baghmara claiming it would dilute the powers of the traditional chiefs.
Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, meanwhile, said that the government respects the sentiments of all sections of the people, but due to Court directives the government was compelled to hold the elections in Garo Hills.
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