“All political appointees to various boards and corporations under the government have been de-notified, and facilities extended to them withdrawn. This has been done to maintain impartiality and fair play,” a government official told PTI here today.
Besides NCP leader Mr PA Sangma, who was the chairman of the state Planning Board, former CM and United Democratic Party leader Mr JD Rymbai also lost his post as the Chairman of state economic development council.
Among others were 17 sitting MLAs, nineteen former legislators and persons with political affiliations, who were appointed as chairpersons or members of at least 25 different boards, councils, corporations and other agencies.
The chairman of a board is entitled to get perks and allowances of over Rs 30,000 along with a slew of other facilities.
All the appointments were made by the then ruling five-party MPA last year, in an apparent bid to pacify all the member partners of the coalition as well as to rehabilitate candidates who had lost the assembly elections to their rivals.