TNT: What would your Cabinet do to create modern Meghalaya?

CM: We all want good governance and along with it we will try to create Meghalaya modern and viable with the available infrastructure and even if we have to create or being in all the modern facilities we will create related infrastructures.

TNT: Don’t you think that first of all your IT department has to be well equipped?

CM: I am sure our IT department is very well equipped, IT Park in Shillong is also pipeline, whatever we do not have, we have capable people in the cabinet, we will create them.

TNT: You have 25 percent of women in your cabinet, how fruitful will they be?

CM: We are hopeful that with the 25 percent lady cabinet ministers which is in no Parliament or Legislative Assemblies’ on the globe, with this number of capable women folk Meghalaya will surly go ahead.
TNT: Your manifesto is a magic Pandora with lot of promises, how would you take them up one by one?

CM: we will choose them up with in priorities wise, according to the need of the hour and I am sure we will accomplish all our promises.

TNT: What do you think about the mandate your party got in Meghalaya?

CM: As this mandate comes with huge expectations, I on behalf of my colleagues, make this solemn pledge that it will be our sincere and committed endeavour with utmost sense of dedication to implement all those that we have promised in our manifesto.

TNT: Your comment on industrialization?

CM: Improvements in infrastructure will help us attract more investments and industry but we will be cautious that we promote industralisation with a minimal environmental foot

One of the deformed girl

DIMAPUR, Mar 24: Another raiding was conducted today at ‘Grace Home’ run by Jacob John in Jaipur, Rajasthan by activists and NGOs involving the Tangkhul Shanao Long, Delhi (TSLD) but Jacob John’s second wife ( from Holland) escaped with the remaining two kids before the activists arrived at the Grace Home.

Two sisters aged 7 and 8 from Ukhrul district of Manipur were taken away from the children’s home by the wife of Jacon John after being informed by someone that activists were coming to raid the ‘home’ again.

“After learning that two more kids were still at the children’s home, we came to raid it but before we arrived Jacob John’s wife had escaped with the two sisters,” Felicita Shongvah, president of Tangkhul Shanao Long, Delhi informed news person over phone from Jaipur today.

She then alleged that a man seems to be a friend of Jacon John came and threatened the activists at the children’s home today saying he is from the Congress party and now Rajasthan is run by the Congress party. But as soon as the media team arrived after being called in by the activists, the man disappeared, said Felicita Shongvah.

Meanwhile, the president of TSLD alleged that a man identified as one Lungnem Vashi from Tuinem village of Ukhrul district, Manipur is also highly suspected to be involved in the child trafficking incident in collaboration with Jacob John. Felicita Shongvah disclosed that Jacob John’s younger brother is married to Lungnem Vashi’s sister. The TSLD president further alleged that the involvement of one A.S.Worthingla of Khamasom Khullen village of Ukhrul district is also suspected. “After the rescue operation of the Grace Home was widely published in the newspapers, Lungnem Vashi and A.S.Worthingla came to Delhi. It was not clear whether Worthingla had gone to Jaipur or not but she wrote to the police station where Jacon John was lodged for the release of the latter,” alleged Felicita Shongvah. Worthingla’s 9 years old daughter is reportedly among the 51 children rescued from the Grace Home on March 12. According to Felicita Shongvah, A.S.Worthingla in her petition to the police station mentioned that she had sent her daughter to the Grace Home after she had given her consent.

Meanwhile, children were physically assaulted with electric wires and the likes as punishment, alleged Felicita Shongvah. She said after making the children starved in the locked room for several days, they were also beaten up very often, she further alleged. Of the 51 children rescued, 8 of them have badly deformed, the TSLD revealed.

Of the 51 children rescued from two children homes in Jaipur on March 12, the total number of children from Manipur is 21, six of them are from Nagaland, another six children from Uttar Pradesh (UP), 4 each from Assam, Nepal, Rajasthan and Punjab and 2 from New Delhi. Again, of the 21 children from Manipur, 17 are from Ukhrul district, 3 from Felicita Shongvahand one from Chandel district.