TURA, Aug 26: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has endorsed the crackdown by police and district administration of West Garo Hills against those behind the illegal raising of prices of food items and other goods in the entire region.
The chief minister issued a statement saying this was being down in the interest of the people who have been suffering because of the unscrupulous acts of certain groups and individuals who have been behind this illegal raising of prices.
He said that food security is a priority of the government to ensure the common people are not cheated of their requirements.
The illegal and self created Meghalaya Chamber of Commerce organization by arrested BJP MDC Bernard N Marak has been found in an investigation to be behind the rise in prices as they have forced traders to raise prices of all food items, construction materials etc and was taking a commission for each price hike.
This group of traders and a handful of their supporters who have been holding Tura citizens and people of West Garo Hills to ransom by dictating their own terms in regards to price rise have been unearthed by Tura police.
The members who pushed, encouraged and endorsed the price rise leading to suffering of the people of Tura are mentioned below in the MCC list recovered by Tura police.
