The alleged scam in the police department that was unearthed recently is just the latest in a long line of glaring examples of corruption, Shillong MP and state Congress Party leader Vincent Pala said today.
An inquiry has found that more than two dozen police vehicles were improperly used by a senior officer for his own personal reasons and contracts were improperly awarded by the same officer.
Pala said that the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government has been dogged by scams periodically in its four years in power.
“It seems that for this government, their own people are more important and law is of no use for them,” Pala said.
Even established rules that forbid government servants from being involved in political parties have been ignored, he said, perhaps referring to Ransom Sutnga of the National People’s Party, who appeared to have joined the party even before he retired from service.
“The dome of the new Assembly building collapsed but no action has been taken against the contractor and inquires after inquiries have been constituted but we have not seen even a single result,” he said.
Under Pala’s tenure as state Congress chief, the party has been decimated in the GHADC and Assembly, as its MDCs, MLAs and other senior party figures have quit in favour of the NPP, Trinamool Congress and others.
Pala claimed that the money government figures are earning through illegal coal laden trucks will be the same money used to buy the support of Congress turncoats.
“This is a challenge for the future of our state and people must realise that the future will be no different and we will continue to have issues like drugs, unemployment affecting our society,” the MP said.
