BJP flays ‘drowning’ NPP for sudden work culture

Shillong, Dec 6: The BJP state president, Ernest Mawrie has criticised the NPP for its sudden urge to work for the people of the state.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the BJP leader drew a parallel with the Congress government of 2014 and said that the NPP is aware of its declining popularity and rising anger among the people against them.

“The NPP is well aware of the fact that they have done nothing in the last 4.5 years for the people. They know that the people are ready to vote them out. And just like the drowning Congress in 2014 (before Lok Sabha elections), the drowning NPP is now on an inauguration and foundation stone laying spree.

Mawrie said most of the projects are being inaugurated in an incomplete state, and foundations stones are being laid with no proper planning or resource mobilisation. He said, this is too little, too late. All this is being done to fool the voters into trusting the NPP once again.

Mawrie asserted that most of the developmental work that has been done in the state in the last 4.5 years has been under the BJP-led Central government schemes.

On the FOCUS scheme too, Mawrie wondered as to where has the money really come from! Mawrie said that no amount of renaming and rebranding of Central government schemes, or redirecting of Central government funds, is going to fool the people.

“The people of Meghalaya are aware of the impact that PM Narendra Modi has brought to their lives, and the people have decided to bring a BJP-led double engine government in Meghalaya as well”, he asserted.