Cong will have to answer a host of issues in Assembly: MPF

The ruling Congress in Meghalaya will have to answer a host of issues ranging from deteriorating law and order situation and criminalisation of politics to corruption during the week long Winter Session of the Assembly beginning tomorrow, the Opposition Meghalaya People's Front said today.
"We will take up issues ranging from deteriorating law and order and criminalisation of politics to corruption," MPF spokesperson Paul Lyngdoh told PTI.
The people of the state deserve to know about the Garo Hills peace pact and the proposed elections to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC), besides the law and order issues, he said.

"Too many police personnel were dying in the war against our own people who took up arms due to total collapse of governance," he said.
The MPF also questioned the decision of the state government to extend the tenure of GHADC twice, which they said was "illegal and unconstitutional."
The MPF spokesperson also indicated that the issue of Social Welfare minister Deborah Marak facing a police charge sheet earlier this month for allegedly using militants to influence voters, would be raised during the session.

The issue related to the education scam in 2009-10 involving then Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh was likely to be brought up for discussion, Lyngdoh said.

Lyngdoh, now the state Urban minister, was in the know of the matter when deserving candidates were deprived of their rights to be appointed teachers in government LP schools as their marks were tampered.
The MPF comprises of the United Democratic Party (UDP) with eight MLAs, the National People's Party (NPP) with two MLAs and two Independents, while the ruling Congress has 29 MLAs in the House.