Opposition All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) state president Charles Pyngrope on Saturday said there is need for an independent probe into the July 24-mob attack at the CMO in Tura.
Speaking to reporters, Pyngrope said, “An independent probe will definitely go down well with the people of Meghalaya as we also want to know the truth as to who has committed it.”
He said, “As president of the party and as legislator, I totally condemned the incident that happened in Tura irrespective of who were the perpetrators of the incident because civilization like ours, we can’t afford to behave like barbarians and specially to try and bodily harm the chief minister I mean it is a disgrace to our community and to the state as a whole and such things should never have occurred in the first place. That is my view.”
Pyngrope also urged all concerns to refrain from politicizing the issue. “My humble request is let us not politicize the matter and not say it was the TMC or the BJP or the Congress. They have picked up some people and they have interrogated them so let the truth prevail and then law will take its own course.”
The AITC president also termed the arrest of the party’s youth leader Richard Mrong Marak as illogical. Pyngrope said, “In the case of Richard Marak, I was made to understand that at that point of time he was not even in the place of occurrence so I find it quite surprising that the police picked him up. Let them pick him up for questioning but detaining was somehow I felt not logical.”
“As far as my knowledge goes his wife has been discharged from the hospital at the same day and I was made to understand that he was with his wife at that time in his own residence. Let the commission of inquiry come out with the facts and figures,” he said.