Senior NCP leader Adolf Hitler Marak resigned from the post of chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Assembly recently after Sangma’s son, James, expressed desire to hold the post.
Marak told reporters today that he had resigned from the post after James told him that his father wanted him to hold the post.
The Congress-led Meghalaya United Alliance government had initially appointed senior Congress leader Rowell Lyngdoh to the post and later NCP MLA Masonsing Sangma.
Marak made it clear that he was not happy with the manner in which the NCP was functioning in the state under Sangma’s leadership.
He said after the NCP-UDP-led government was ousted from power by the Congress-led MUA government in May, Sangma succeeded in appointing his other son, Conrad, as the leader of the Opposition.
Later, his daughter Agatha was appointed as the Union minister of state for rural development, he added.
“I feel that Sangma is engaging in family politics and that he is acting in an autocratic manner. This is also the view of a majority of NCP legislators,” Marak said.
Marak met chief minister D.D. Lapang today to discuss the political situation. He is understood to have expressed his desire to come out of the NCP and support the MUA. Marak said the meeting was a courtesy call.
Neither James nor Conrad was available for comment.