From CK Nayak
New Delhi: Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President DD Lapang on Tuesday exuded confidence that Congress will gain absolute majority in the coming Assembly polls to form the Government on its own in Meghalaya.
Lapang, who met party president Sonia Gandhi during his stay in Delhi, told The Shillong Times that this would be possible since the party is the best prepared for the polls, besides there are other favourable factors in the State.
Referring to the advice by Madam that winability will be the foremost factor in allotting party tickets, the former Chief Minister said, “This will ensure that the best candidates get the tickets.”
Providing details, Lapang said the party has drawn meticulous plans to fight the election from the grassroots level with a well spread out calendar of events which ended on Monday.
“Two special committees at the Parliamentary Constituency level for Shillong and Tura have been formed for election preparedness,” he said.
The committees consist of Shillong MP and Union Minister of State, Vincent Pala, and other important Congress leaders besides Lapang himself. All sitting party legislators and DCC members have also been included in the committees.
The members of these two high level special committees will visit each of the assembly segments under their respective zones and will then recommend the name of the candidates who have the best chances of winning the election. “This time the ticket distribution will be most transparent, free and fair and based purely on the winability factor,” he said. Disclosing that frontal organisations of the party like the Mahila Congress, Seva Dal, NYC and NSUI would also be rejuvenated to take on the opposition parties, Lapang said that these frontal organisations have already held several meetings.
On the role of the AICC, Lapang said the party high command has also geared up for the upcoming polls with many top Union ministers and chiefs of frontal organisations visiting the State to oversee the party’s poll preparedness.
The MPCC chief left for Shillong on Tuesday morning.
