PRAYER MEETING TO SAVE MEGHALAYA

With Meghalaya Congress legislators habitually rushing to 10 Janpath to seek the blessings of “madam” Sonia Gandhi, the “Aam Admi” left with no option is seeking for divine intervention to save the state.

A three-day prayer meeting would be held at Nartiang, Jaintia Hills to seek “God’s help to save the state from the present political turmoil.”

Church and village elders together with NGO members in Nartiang would organise the prayer meeting from Monday next week at the local LP School there.

“We are organising the meeting so that our politicians might see sense and start working for the people of the state, instead of rushing to New Delhi for power,” president of Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People (Nartiang circle), Damanmi Dkhar said today.

Urging other people to join the prayer meeting, he said, they can do so from their own homes and religious places.

Meghalaya’s state machinery is paralysed for the past few months due to infighting within the Congress party – the largest coalition in the Meghalaya United Alliance government.

18 Congress men are demanding a change of leadership in the Congress Legislature Party (CLP). Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, the CLP leader, and his loyalists are clinging on.

In the process, the politicians have vacuumed themselves out of the secretariat here to New Delhi. Sangma, who has rushed to New Delhi today, earlier, claimed he keeps tab of the state’s affair over the phone with his officers.

“Not even an agitation can work here in Meghalaya. So we are organising this prayer meeting as it’s our only option,” Dkhar said.