Shillong, Oct 21: Tourism Minister Timothy D Shira has lashed out at Tura MP Saleng Sangma, saying that the latter has changed his tune on the subject of railways now that he is no longer an MLA.

Sangma has added his voice to calls for the railway line, which currently only reaches Mendipathar in North Garo Hills, to go deeper into Garo Hills in order to bring more benefits to the population in terms of trade and transport.

“There have been MLAs who are making the demand for the extension of railways,” Shira said today. “It (Sangma’s demand) is only a repetition. He has no original ideas.”

Shira added that when the MP was a legislator he could have demanded the extension of the railway but “kept silent”.

Recently, the Tura MP urged Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) to extend the railway

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