By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The UDP has served a one-week deadline for its party legislator Ardent Miller Basiawmoit from Nongkrem to state whether he would contest from the party in the upcoming Assembly elections.
“We have asked Basaiawmoit to reply within a week to clarify if he still wanted to contest from the party,” UDP working president Paul Lyngdoh informed.
According to Lyngdoh, the legislator has also been asked to reply to the various letters sent by the party in this connection.
Earlier, the party had also sent a similar show cause notice to Basaiawmoit asking him to reply if he wanted to apply for the party ticket. However, there was no favorable reply from the legislator.
The party has issued this fresh show cause notice after it was reported in a section of the media that Basaiawmoit has already made up his mind of contesting from the HSPDP in the upcoming election.
Another report suggested that a section of the party leadership had gone to offer the party ticket to sitting Congress MDC from Nongkrem Lambor Malngiang.
The UDP went to offer the ticket after there were strong indications that Malngiang was likely to lose the race for the Congress ticket to former MDP legislator Draison Kharshiing who has also applied for the Congress ticket.
Interestingly, it was further reported that UDP working president Bindo Mathew Lanong was among those party leaders who had offered Malngiang the UDP ticket.
When contacted on Friday, Lanong had denied that he had made such offer to Malngiang.
“I have never spoken to Malngiang. I was caught by surprise when a section of the media mentioned that I went to offer the party ticket to sitting Congress MDC from Nongkrem.