Meghalaya: Mukul tried to privatise MeECL in 2017, now creating disorder within Congress - NPP
NPP also revealed that Mukul signed various deals with private companies in 2017, giving huge amounts of money to these companies, which took “away the power department’s mandate of setting up power plants” and caused the MeECL to eventually become crippled with debt.
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The National People’s Party (NPP) said on Tuesday that current opposition leader Mukul Sangma had tried to privatise MeECL in 2017, and is now causing disorder within the state’s Congress party to hold on to power due to a mounting revolt of the party members against him.
“Congress is doomed not because of its ideology but because of corrupt and power-hungry ‘leaders’ like Mukul Sangma. No wonder there was an exodus of leaders from the Congress both at the Centre and the State, and more leaders will abandon the sinking ship in the days to come,” NPP spokesperson Nickey Nongkhlaw said in a press release, adding that Mukul must resign as the opposition leader for scamming people for eight years.
“Ever hungry to be in the limelight, Mukul and his brother are desperately trying to stay afloat and be politically relevant. With such leaders holding key positions in the party, it is understandable why Meghalaya’s Congress is suffering today. Before commenting on the NPP-led MDA government, Mukul should first look at his own crumbling party,” Nongkhlaw said, elaborating that Mukul was “booted” out of power in 2018 by Janta ki Adalat (court of people) and that he was using dirty politics to fight battles now.
NPP also revealed that Mukul signed various deals with private companies in 2017, giving huge amounts of money to these companies, which took “away the power department’s mandate of setting up power plants” and caused the MeECL to eventually become crippled with debt.
“In 2017 . . . he (Mukul Sangma) signed deals with Renew Joule Private Limited to take away the power department’s mandate of setting up power plants. He targeted Ri-Bhoi district, Mendipathar and Ampati for this privatisation deal. In the same year, he signed deals with ETA Star Infrastructure Ltd, Brijraj Power Metallics Ltd and MSGC Power Ltd for taking away small thermal power projects of MeECL and handing them over to these private companies,” NPP said.
“When members of the society raised concerns and complaints on this move of Mukul, only then he called off the deals after already causing the required damage to the department. What sort of an arrangement did Mukul have with these private players? Why did he use MeECL’s money for a private deal?” the NPP spokesperson questioned.
Nongkhlaw also said that Mukul had handed over the cancelled power projects to NEEPCO which further led MeECL to have a financial obligation.
“No wonder power cuts were rampant during Mukul’s time, stretching to four months every year, because he put MeECL in such a bad financial position that it did not have any more money left to fulfil the obligations of the bad agreements Congress had signed in 2007,” Nongkhlaw said.
NPP, which is currently leading Meghalaya’s MDA government, added that it was ironic for Mukul and Zenith Sangma to ask for Chief Minister Conrad Sangma’s resignation and that “if they had some amount of guilt left in them for deliberately misleading the public for all these years, they would not have contested elections at all.”
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