Shillong: The spate of realignments in the run-up to the meeting election has became to the good thing about the National People’s Party (NPP) and the BJP, with Congress taking the hit.
“There had been a few preliminary setbacks. But the get together has a new president in Delhi and in the state. The group is healthier positioned,” Congress MP and working president of the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee Vincent Pala said, downplaying any risk those realignments pose.
Over the past few months, Congress misplaced 8 MLAs. It additionally welcomed 5 MLAs into its fold, the go back of one among whom – Manas Chaudhuri – from BJP was once noticed a ‘ghar waapasi’.
BJP had its personal ‘ghar waapasi’ when veteran leader AL Hek made a comeback. Another political heavyweight, former deputy chief minister Sanbor Shullai, additionally joined the saffron get together. He was once the president of the state unit of NCP. If the elections in Assam and Manipur are anything else to head through, the beef up and tool long-time legislators command is vital. In each states, high-profile exits from Congress like that of Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam or N Biren Singh in Manipur modified the fortunes of the new entrant, BJP, in the election.
“AL Hek and Sanbor Shullai were distinguished leaders and feature completed great work of their constituencies. That is why people have voted for them time and again. They had been searching for the fitting position from which to serve their people better. BJP has only if platform,” president of the Meghalaya unit of BJP, Shibun Lygdoh, said. The remaining time BJP was once represented in the meeting was once in 1998, when it gained 3 seats.
The series of exits Congress needed to handle was once preceded through brewing dissent within the organizational structure of each the get together and the federal government. First, it was once suspended MLA PN Syiem, who joined the regional get together People’s Democratic Front and is now its president. Then, in August remaining yr, chief minister Mukul Sangma dropped ministers Prestone Tynsong and Sniawbhalang Dhar for ‘anti-party actions’. One of the ministers appointed of their position, Comingone Ymbon, later left the get together for NPP. “Congress leaders failed at the whole lot. Whether it was once farmers’ issues or fundamentals like road, training or well being, the federal government did completely nothing,” Ymbon said.
Like Ymbon, for plenty of leaders it was once a sense of disillusionment with the existing dispensation that was once the deal-breaker. Former deputy chief minister Rowell Lygdoh, for example, shall be contesting from his home flooring Mawkyrkat in West Khasi Hills district on an NPP price tag. “Problem with the Congress is the folks, not the get together,” he said. The veteran leader felt he had not been given his due after just about 30 years with Congress. “They removed me from every submit I held in the get together as well as the federal government. They dissolved my whole block Congress committee. What could I do?” he added. In NPP, he sees a “great deal of cooperation and a lot of transparency.”
NPP has been a success in drawing the perfect collection of sitting MLAs this time. “NPP is a fresh get together with a fresh point of view. I switched to NPP as a result of the mandate of the folks. It will do a lot better work than the Congress government did,” Stephanson Mukhim, a former Independent who supported the Congress government and has now joined NPP, said.
NPP is an ally of the NDA on the Centre and is part of the BJP-led government in Manipur as well. In Meghalaya, alternatively, each NPP and BJP have said they are combating it out alone.
“There had been a few preliminary setbacks. But the get together has a new president in Delhi and in the state. The group is healthier positioned,” Congress MP and working president of the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee Vincent Pala said, downplaying any risk those realignments pose.
Over the past few months, Congress misplaced 8 MLAs. It additionally welcomed 5 MLAs into its fold, the go back of one among whom – Manas Chaudhuri – from BJP was once noticed a ‘ghar waapasi’.
BJP had its personal ‘ghar waapasi’ when veteran leader AL Hek made a comeback. Another political heavyweight, former deputy chief minister Sanbor Shullai, additionally joined the saffron get together. He was once the president of the state unit of NCP. If the elections in Assam and Manipur are anything else to head through, the beef up and tool long-time legislators command is vital. In each states, high-profile exits from Congress like that of Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam or N Biren Singh in Manipur modified the fortunes of the new entrant, BJP, in the election.
“AL Hek and Sanbor Shullai were distinguished leaders and feature completed great work of their constituencies. That is why people have voted for them time and again. They had been searching for the fitting position from which to serve their people better. BJP has only if platform,” president of the Meghalaya unit of BJP, Shibun Lygdoh, said. The remaining time BJP was once represented in the meeting was once in 1998, when it gained 3 seats.
The series of exits Congress needed to handle was once preceded through brewing dissent within the organizational structure of each the get together and the federal government. First, it was once suspended MLA PN Syiem, who joined the regional get together People’s Democratic Front and is now its president. Then, in August remaining yr, chief minister Mukul Sangma dropped ministers Prestone Tynsong and Sniawbhalang Dhar for ‘anti-party actions’. One of the ministers appointed of their position, Comingone Ymbon, later left the get together for NPP. “Congress leaders failed at the whole lot. Whether it was once farmers’ issues or fundamentals like road, training or well being, the federal government did completely nothing,” Ymbon said.
Like Ymbon, for plenty of leaders it was once a sense of disillusionment with the existing dispensation that was once the deal-breaker. Former deputy chief minister Rowell Lygdoh, for example, shall be contesting from his home flooring Mawkyrkat in West Khasi Hills district on an NPP price tag. “Problem with the Congress is the folks, not the get together,” he said. The veteran leader felt he had not been given his due after just about 30 years with Congress. “They removed me from every submit I held in the get together as well as the federal government. They dissolved my whole block Congress committee. What could I do?” he added. In NPP, he sees a “great deal of cooperation and a lot of transparency.”
NPP has been a success in drawing the perfect collection of sitting MLAs this time. “NPP is a fresh get together with a fresh point of view. I switched to NPP as a result of the mandate of the folks. It will do a lot better work than the Congress government did,” Stephanson Mukhim, a former Independent who supported the Congress government and has now joined NPP, said.
NPP is an ally of the NDA on the Centre and is part of the BJP-led government in Manipur as well. In Meghalaya, alternatively, each NPP and BJP have said they are combating it out alone.
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