Cong blames politico-officer nexus for dome damage
Shillong, May 23: The Congress on Monday blamed politico-officer-contractor nexus behind the collapse of the dome of the Assembly building on Sunday.
After the Executive Engineer, PWD (buildings), Ransom Sutnga(in picture) pointed out design fault, the MPCC working president PN Syiem said it clearly indicates that the officer responsible is only shying away from his responsibility and allowing rampant poor quality of construction and unprofessional execution of work, maybe he is too busy pleasing his political masters and build up is own political career.
“Such statements clearly reflect the kind of favouritism and blatant corrupt dealings which are underway while handing out government projects. The contractor at the ISBT is a ruling party worker whereas the Executive Engineer is a prospective candidate of the ruling party and he has been seen busy campaigning from North Shillong while he is also holding on to his government job. He should be immediately suspended from his responsibilities, there must be an independent legal scrutiny by a sitting judge of the High Court to probe all government projects which have resulted in such problems”, said a statement issued by the MPCC.