SHILLONG:
Law Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, on July 18, said the state police have to rise and take firm decisions to ensure safety and security of all citizens as even MLAs are no longer safe.
“Even MLAs are no longer safe. I think we all know that. We have seen so many MLAs and their homes being attacked in the last four months. So police will have to rise and take firm decisions,” Lyngdoh, whose house was also attacked recently when a 46-year-old man pelted stones as he threatened to kill, told reporters.
“MLAs, administrators, police force will all have to speak the same language otherwise it is going to go very wrong and set things in order, restore the sense of security as it is a very important component of life,” she said while adding “I am sure the deputy chief minister in-charge home is on the job and the police are also rising to that necessity and I feel that be as it may, we have to start putting things in order.”
The minister also stressed on the need to firmly deal with the usages of the social media forums and said “We have to deal firmly with crossing of lines, we need to sit and discuss as to whether or not we need to legislate more laws to prevent communities going out of hands like this.”
“And not everybody is a bad person but it is just that there are certain negative elements, we have to start working on how best we put them in order and discipline people otherwise this lawlessness will prevail and there will be this sense that it is not under wraps and under check and you can’t say that the government is not doing anything,” she added.