Working President of the Meghalaya Congress, Ampareen Lyngdoh, today said that Chief Minister Conrad Sangma must come clean on why the police had once again failed to stop the militant HNLC group from planting an IED in the heart of Shillong.
“The honourable Chief Minister can say whatever he likes but we would like to know why the police intelligence once again failed?” Lyngdoh told Highland Post two days after the HNLC planted a dud IED outside the office of Sangma’s National People’s Party.
Sangma made an explosive allegation yesterday that the outlawed HNLC could be working at the behest of the NPP’s political rivals.
She lambasted the Chief Minister stating that he cannot distract from the main point of what had happened by trying to say that there is a nexus between the militants and his political rivals.
The timing of the incident could hardly have been worse as it came on the day that the Vice-President of India was visiting the city. Additionally, the location, in Lachumiere, is practically at the heart of the state’s administration, with government offices, Raj Bhavan, police headquarters and courts not far away.
“This is an attack on the people and when the Vice-President of the country was in town on the day the IED was planted and when an attack on the people occurs you cannot dilute the entire incident and say that it’s politics,” she said.
