Shillong, Aug 18: In a major embarrassment for Meghalaya,  All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary, Randeep Singh Surjewala on Wednesday compared the miscreants brandishing AK-47 rifles and driving through the city of Shillong on August 15 to Taliban militants of Afghanistan.

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Surjewala said, “Carrying black flags like Taliban, covering their face with black masks, militants brandishing guns were running from one corner of Shillong to another but no one stopped them. Meghalaya Chief Minister’s residence was attacked with petrol bomb. On the occasion of Independence Day, curfew had to be imposed for 98 hours in Shillong and internet services had to be suspended. The Home Minister has resigned. Despite all this, the Modi government is mum over the issue.”

He also informed that the carcade of Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik, which is the biggest representation of Indian government, was pelted with stones on August 17.

Despite so much breakdown of law and order in the state capital of North East India, he questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

“Where is Modi government?  Where is India’s Home Minister? What is the reason that Shri Narendra Modi and Shri. Amit Shah are not speaking even a word on the incident,” he questioned.

Later, he tried to clarify that he wasn’t comparing the miscreants in Shillong to Taliban terrorists.

“I’m not comparing.  I’m pointing out. Like Taliban terrorists brandish weapons, we can understand it happens in Afghanistan but a similar video was noticed of militants brandishing black flags, black clothes and AK-47 through the main streets of Shillong with nobody checking them,” he said while asking “Is that not abdication of Constitutional responsibility by government of India.”