From Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Water Resources and Minority Affairs, Vincent H Pala, on Thursday denied that he had visited Jirang constituency to promote any probable candidate for the party and said that as per the standing directive of the AICC wherever an MP or a Minister goes, he has to attend meetings and meet party workers.
“As per the AICC directive, I contacted the MPCC which advised me to meet the party unit under the presidentship of William Mynsong of Jirang Block Congress Committee,” Pala said in a statement. “Mynsong being the elected president of the Jirang Unit, I attended the meetings and met party workers,” he said.
Pala also stated that a Block Committee which is not recognized by the MPCC has no locus standi to question the purpose of his visit or meetings in the State.
Pala’s reaction came after a rival faction of the Jirang Block Congress Committee (JBCC) on Wednesday questioned the intentions of the Union MoS in ‘projecting a friend of his’ as a probable Congress candidate from Jirang constituency for the 2013 Assembly elections.