At a loss to explain what could drive the opposition Congress Party to move a resolution for the dismissal of the Assembly Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh, United Democratic Party (UDP) leader Bindo Lanong said today that perhaps the party has gone mad and restless after being out of power for the past three years.
It was last week that the Congress made the decision to push for the dismissal of Lyngdoh (who is from the UDP) as Speaker.
“When even Metbah Lyngdoh doesn’t have a clue about such a development taken by the Congress to remove him as the Speaker, we have to assume that since the Congress is used to being in power here in Meghalaya and occupying the chair, they have become mad and restless without one,” Lanong told Highland Post.
Lanong was once Deputy Chief Minister when the UDP was in coalition with the Congress prior to 2013.
As has been his wont in the past, Lanong hit out at his former partners, saying that the leader of the opposition (and his former boss as CM) Dr Mukul Sangma had betrayed the alliance’s stand on the Inner Line Permit (ILP).
There was no question of thus quitting the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government and joining hands again with the Congress, he opined. “How will we work with the Congress, which betrayed us so much on ILP?” the former legislator queried.
To pull out of the government, with its seven MLAs, would only invite the Centre to impose President’s Rule on the state, he added.
