Party’s Mawlai area unit formed
SHILLONG: A move to revamp the Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) was set in motion with its president Ardent M. Basaiawmoit stating that it will take place in every nook and corner of the State.
Speaking to The Shillong Times on whether the re-organization is aimed at the 2018 elections, Basaiawmoit gave a positive response, and said, “There will be re-organization of the party in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills.”
For the party, a better way to revamp its image is to lay the first stone at the place where the HSPDP originated as a party, i.e. Mawlai by coming up with the HSPDP Mawlai Constituency Area Unit, he said.
On May 16, at a meeting convened at the Mawlai Phudmawrie Community Hall, where Basaiawmoit was also present, he observed that it is high time to dislodge the Congress rule from the State.
“The people should not look for a rich candidate but to elect a candidate who can raise his voice and place the grievances of the people at the Assembly,” he said.
“Our agenda is to oust the Congress from power otherwise our State will be in trouble and we will work hard to contest elections in all the 36 constituencies of Khasi and Jaintia Hills in 2018,” he added.
It was back in the year 1968 when 13 leaders of the All Party Hill Leaders Conference (APHLC) who had not agreed to the Sub State offer for Meghalaya, met at Mawlai to push their demand for a Hill State and called (L) Hoping Stone Lyngdoh to join their party after he was thrown out of a party meeting at Mendipathar in Garo Hills.
