Shillong, Oct. 8 -- Leader of the Opposition in the Meghalaya Assembly, Mukul M. Sangma, on Thursday took a direct swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing it of leveraging false promises and "quid pro quo" political maneuvering to sway voters ahead of the 2028 State Assembly elections.
He asserted that the people of Meghalaya must stand together to reject this style of "quid pro quo" politics.
The former Chief Minister termed the BJP's assurances regarding the resumption of regulated coal mining and other long-pending demands as merely a rerun of its unfulfilled promises from the 2018 assembly election campaign.
Recalling that the BJP had explicitly claimed during the 2018 Assembly election campaign that coal mining would res...