SHILLONG, April 6: Deputy Speaker and NCP legislator, who is facing disqualification, Sanbor Shullai today filed a complaint letter to Assembly Speaker Bindo M Lanong seeking disqualification of NCP supremo Purno A Sangma under the 10th Schedule of the Constitution. Shullai submitted the complaint letter against the former Lok Sabha Speaker to the Assembly Speaker on Monday soon after he submitted his reply to the show-cause issued by Lanong for his alleged violation of the Anti-Defection Act. Shullai in his complaint to the Speaker stated that Sangma was hobnobbing with the Congress to form the NCP-Congress alliance government in the State. He claimed that Sangma, who met Congress leader PR Kyndiah in March, went to give up his membership of the NCP. “Sangma has indulged himself in anti-party activities and participated in Congress meeting at New Delhi during the first fortnight of March to give up his membership of NCP,” Shullai stated in a news conference.
Shullai also claimed that on March 3, he was informed by Sangma’s son Conrad K Sangma, who is also an MLA, that the NCP leader had met Union Tribal Affairs Minister PR Kyndiah and other Congress leaders to sabotage the MPA coalition and to form the NCP-Congress government in Meghalaya. “Sangma has been seen on various occasions hobnobbing with leaders and MLA’s of Congress party and has also been relentlessly trying to damage the MPA coalition in order to fulfil his dream of becoming Chief Minister in a Congress government in Meghalaya,” Shullai claimed in the complaint. By and large, the Speaker should suspend Sangma from the House besides suspending his voting rights as he had also faced the same action from the Speaker on a mere complaint lodged against him by Secretary of NCP Parliamentary Party John Manner Marak, Shullai added. Shullai’s complaint against Sangma assumed significance in the wake of the ongoing disqualification proceedings against him for joining the Opposition Congress. Before the March 17 trust vote, the Assembly Speaker placed five legislators including Shullai under interim suspension for violating the 10th Schedule of the Constitution.
Meanwhile, the Assembly Speaker downplayed the complaint of Shullai saying that he used to receive many petitions. Sangma had also earlier clarified that though he had met the Union Tribal Affairs Minister in Delhi, that did not reach to the extent of government formation. THE SENTINEL
Shullai also claimed that on March 3, he was informed by Sangma’s son Conrad K Sangma, who is also an MLA, that the NCP leader had met Union Tribal Affairs Minister PR Kyndiah and other Congress leaders to sabotage the MPA coalition and to form the NCP-Congress government in Meghalaya. “Sangma has been seen on various occasions hobnobbing with leaders and MLA’s of Congress party and has also been relentlessly trying to damage the MPA coalition in order to fulfil his dream of becoming Chief Minister in a Congress government in Meghalaya,” Shullai claimed in the complaint. By and large, the Speaker should suspend Sangma from the House besides suspending his voting rights as he had also faced the same action from the Speaker on a mere complaint lodged against him by Secretary of NCP Parliamentary Party John Manner Marak, Shullai added. Shullai’s complaint against Sangma assumed significance in the wake of the ongoing disqualification proceedings against him for joining the Opposition Congress. Before the March 17 trust vote, the Assembly Speaker placed five legislators including Shullai under interim suspension for violating the 10th Schedule of the Constitution.
Meanwhile, the Assembly Speaker downplayed the complaint of Shullai saying that he used to receive many petitions. Sangma had also earlier clarified that though he had met the Union Tribal Affairs Minister in Delhi, that did not reach to the extent of government formation. THE SENTINEL
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