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Meghalaya goes to polls on February 27, and the votes will probably be counted on March 2.
Guwahati:
Union Residence Minister Amit Shah on Friday continued his assault in opposition to Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Okay Sangma and the Nationwide Folks’s Social gathering (NPP) accusing the state authorities of corruption and filling its coffers with poor individuals’s cash.
Addressing election rallies in Meghalaya’s Rangsakona and DaluHe, the BJP chief stated that the Narendra Modi authorities had offered Rs 24,000 crore for the availability of the water to all of the households in Meghalaya, however the cash was siphoned off by the state authorities.
“The central authorities had accepted 2.5 lakh housing items however individuals didn’t get them,” Mr Shah stated, doubling down on his declare that Conrad Sangma stopped the stream of funds within the state.
The BJP, which was part of the Conrad Sangma-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance authorities within the state, broke the alliance earlier than the elections and is contesting all of the 60 meeting seats.
The house minister additionally attacked former chief minister Mukul Sangma, saying that the 2 chief ministers disadvantaged the state’s youth of jobs and labored “just for their households” and never the event of the state.
“For years, two households have dominated Meghalaya. Mukul Sangma dominated the state for a number of years, whereas Conrad Sangma’s household was additionally in energy for a few years. Nothing occurred within the state. What did these two households do?” Shah requested.
“These two households indulged in corruption and crammed their very own coffers with poor individuals’s cash. Time has come to free Meghalaya of those two households and produce the BJP to energy. The BJP election manifesto has already introduced that we’d probe this corruption in Meghalaya,” he stated.
Mr Shah additionally promised that if the BJP involves energy within the state all households would get electrical energy, housing and faucet water.
Meghalaya goes to polls on February 27, and the votes will probably be counted on March 2.
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