The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) should be allowed to probe the collapse of the dome at the under-construction new Assembly building as it is the only institution that the people have faith in.
This was stated by senior advocate and Congress Party member Erwin K Sutnga.
A third-party inquiry into the collapse, just over two weeks ago, has yet to begin despite the state government receiving several proposals from various bodies.
Sutnga told Highland Post that any third-party inquiry should be impartial and solely for the cause of justice and should scrutinise the whole matter in the interest of justice for the people by exposing wrongdoings.
Stating that hundreds of crores of rupees have been invested in the Assembly building, he quipped, “Now the ‘D’ has fallen from MDA (Meghalaya Democratic Alliance) and what is left is ‘MA’, which means danger in the Khasi language and the MDA rule poses a danger to everybody now.”
With other government infrastructure projects, such as the cracked bridge on the Mawlai Bypass and leaky Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT), also flawed, Sutnga said that all these examples point to a deep corruption within the government and he fears that a biased committee could be constituted into the dome collapse as an “eyewash” and to buy time before the state elections in the first quarter of next year.
