SHILLONG: State Home Minister and senior Congress leader, HDR Lyngdoh has exuded confidence that the party would definitely secure more than 30 seats (halfway mark) in the 60-memebr Assembly in the elections to be held early next year.
At the same time, the senior Congress leader has batted for Mukul Sangma to continue as the Chief Minister of the state.
“I don’t think there is a necessity to replace him (Mukul Sangma),” HDR Lyngoh told reporters even as he made it clear that the party would go to the people as one voice and not as a divided house.
Asserting that the Congress will retain power in Meghalaya after next year’s elections, Lyngdoh expressed confidence that people of Meghalaya would not accept the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Lyngdoh added that he would soon apply for the party ticket to contest the election and at the same time, he downplayed the apprehensions that many sitting MLAs would desert Congress before the polls.
When asked about the loss Congress had suffered in the KHADC by-polls, he said that the people that time were of an opinion that the post of MLA and MDC should go to two different persons.