[Assam] Mr. Sangliana, MP

[Dilip/Dil Deka]

Would you believe it? A Mizo MP from Bangalore? Not only true, he is making an impact.
  Is India really becoming a nation? :-)
   
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  To the Asom MPs
T his is a piece of information for our MPs with a 
note that if they are already aware of it, they would do well to understand its underpinnings. So this is a message too. HT Sangliana, a Mizo and a celebrated former Bangalore Police Commissioner who is now the BJP MP from Bangalore North, has converted a 20-year old dirty track on the outskirts of Bangalore into a 12.5-km concrete road that now looks like a national highway. He has achieved this feat by sanctioning Rs 1.25 crore out of his annual MPLAD fund of Rs 2 crore for the single project — something which other MPs would not do for road projects because no one trusts them and they fail to get such projects approved. However, Sangliana’s was an exception: after sanctioning the amount after being able to sanction it, given his credibility and track record, he ‘‘threatened’’ the contractor, the ‘‘poor fellow’’ as he calls, by making it clear: that he expected ‘‘quality work’’. His ‘‘surprise inspections at night’’ were enough for the contractor not to swindle money,
 rather commit himself to quality work. A devout Christian who had the secular guts to join an otherwise ‘‘communal’’ BJP, Sangliana is an MP for fellow MPs to emulate not because he made a road but because he could spend Rs 1.25 crore in a single road project — he was too confident to account for whatever he would do. The message, then, is that our MPs in Asom should get their things done after proving their credentials and knowing well that they are servants of the people, not masters (because the people are the real masters in a democracy). The only mantra is: where there is a will, there is a way.
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