SHILLONG: United Democratic Party (UDP) leader Bindo M Lanong, who is up for a three-cornered fight in the Assembly elections next year, asserted that a change was necessary in the Laitumkhrah constituency and the State as well.
Lanong told The Shillong Times that the Congress started working only a few months before the election and “is announcing every project under the sun”.
“What were they doing for all these years when Mukul Sangma was the chief minister,” he said while criticising the state government over the present condition of Shillong.
Referring to the ailing health sector, he said, “X-ray machines are not working in hospitals and there are no specialists and medicines forcing people to buy medicines from outside.”
Lanong promised that his party would change the entire system and that their target would be to launch a war against corruption, which, he said, was not easy to eradicate but could be checked.
On BJP, the senior UDP leader said the party would have to fight hard to open their account. “They have to burn midnight oil to achieve success in Meghalaya,” he said.
Lanong has to fight BJPs Neil Antonio War and Congress’s Ampareen Lyngdoh in the Assembly polls from Laitumkhrah-Malki constituency. The three aspirants are already in business and have started their campaign besides meeting people for the elections.
