Staff Reporter
SHILLONG, Mar 09: Within two months of reallocation of Portfolios in the MUA government by the Chief Minister Dr D D Lapang, in order to render more effective services to the public, the well-intentioned exercise is found to be futile much to the dismay of the major coalition partner, namely the Congress party, since a lot of grievances have been aired by majority of the population and shared by many Congress workers and sympathizers.
According to the information received, there is a lot of resentment in the Congress camp over the functioning of the coalition partner, in charge of PWD (Bldgs) Minister, (Lone KHNAM Legislator from Jaiaw), Paul Lyngdoh, who had been stripped of Urban Affairs Department in the said reshuffle, and alloted PWD (Bldgs). Nonetheless, he continued to rub wrong shoulders in his new department, which he is holding for the last two months.
It may be recalled that, PWD (Bldgs) was taken away from Dr. Roytre Christopher Laloo and given to Paul. The latter, on taking charge, had cancelled all the contracts awarded by his predecessor, which have not only put Laloo in a quandary, the resentment of the contractors have acted like an agitating agent for the Congress Camp to demand for his immediate removal.

Staff Reporter
SHILLONG, Mar. 09: Chief Minister Dr. DD Lapang on Tuesday said that the statement made by Deputy Chief Minister Bindo M Lanong against certain women was at his personal capacity and that he has never reported to him about women opposing his speech.
“That is a personal capacity of Lanong how much he said and how much he did not,” Lapang said while talking to reporters on the sideline of his visit to the trade fair being conducted at Madan Iewrynghep, Laitumkhrah here.
The Chief Minister said that Lanong has never reported to him on the issue and did not know about the women protesting against him. However, he said, “The demonstration of women must be against their findings that Lanong has done wrong and Lanong by not apologizing may find that what they have done is not wrong at all.”
Stating that he has nothing to do as the issue is their (women’s) look out, the Chief Minister also said that Meghalaya has been respectful to women.
“In the matriarchal society, womenfolk have got better position at home and nobody can say that the government or the leadership condemns women,” he asserted.
Further, the Chief Minister said that Lanong might have found a few ‘black sheep’ when he made the statement but he did not point fingers.
“It is Lanong who knows who are the ‘black sheep’ and there can be ‘black sheep’ anywhere. In society you cannot say that there is no black sheep. So Lanong might have discovered those when he said so,” the Chief Minister added.