CMs are not infallible, reasons MPCC chief
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 13 2019: Without naming Chief Minister N Biren, MPCC president and Congress Working Committee (CWC) Member Gaikhangam has categorically stated that Chief Ministers are neither Gods nor infallible.

Speaking at a one-day polling-wise workers' interaction programme held at Heingang Mayai Leikai today under the aegis of Heingang Block Congress Committee, Gaikhangam said that there is no guarantee that the Chief Minister will never fall but on the contrary, people have all the power to topple any Chief Minister.

Even though BJP indulged in wanton abuse of power and secured maximum votes in Heingang AC, the home constituency of Chief Minister N Biren, in the last Lok Sabha election, Congress secured more than 4000 votes as Congress workers worked hard defying all odds and challenges.

For their dedication to the party's ideology, Congress party would stand firm for the Congress workers of Heingang AC, Gaikhangam assured.

Appealing to all the people of Heingang AC not to be disheartened over Congress party's loss in the Lok Sabha election, Gaikhangam claimed that people are still reluctant to accept Congress party's defeat from a moral perspective even though everybody has accepted the party's defeat technically.

The Lok Sabha election was not free and fair.

BJP won the election by taking recourse to all kinds of unfair means and malpractices, he said.

Saying that the workers' interaction programme being held at the grass roots level is a political strategy for the '2022 mission', the MPCC president informed the gathering that the interaction programmes would serve as unfailing foundations for Congress party to secure not less than 40 seats in the 2022 State Assembly election.

The incumbent Government has been facing political crisis as well as financial crisis, and the financial crisis is growing worse.

There is a growing apprehension that the State Government would not be able to pay salaries of employees after two months.

There are tell-tale signs of misgovernance and financial mismanagement, claimed the MPCC president.

There is serious discord and disunity among the BJP MLAs and Ministers and this is something they spilled out in front of all the people, Gaikhangam remarked.

He went on to ask how could the BJP leadership satisfy the people when they are unable to satisfy even 21 persons.

Except for ruling MLAs, all the other MLAs of both the ruling bench and Opposition bench are suffering.

Hailing the Speaker's office for initiating due process on several disqualification petitions filed against eight Congress MLAs, the MPCC president exuded confidence that the Speaker's Tribunal would dispose the petitions without undue delay.

MLA Kh Joykisan decried that the Government has been completely ignoring all the problems of the State as they are engrossed in a protracted power struggle.

The Government is unable to release even MLA Local Area Development Fund.

There is no governance at all, Joykisan asserted.

MPCC Secretary P Saratchandra who contested the last Assembly election on Congress ticket in Heingang AC vowed that he would certainly defeat Chief Minister N Biren in his lifetime whom he said is a cause of misery for the people of Heingang AC and the whole State.

He said that Rs five lakh to 10 lakh each were collected from around 1000 people with a promise that they would recruited into IRB.

Apart from collecting money, the job seekers were also forced to campaign and vote for BJP, Saratchandra said.

Many people who offered money after selling off or mortgaging their properties in search of Government jobs are now enduring extreme misery.

This would have a decisive effect in the 2022 State Assembly election, he said.

MPCC vice-president S Achouba and general secretary (administration) Hareshwar Goswami too spoke at the interaction programme.

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