SHILLONG: After Home Minister, HDR Lyngdoh, the Information Technology Minister and senior Congress leader, Ampareen Lyngdoh has now thrown her weight behind the incumbent Chief Minister, Mukul Sangma to continue as the leader of the party.
Speaking to media persons here on the sidelines of a private programme, Lyngdoh said that she had not seen anyone else capable of delivering a stable government and with stability comes decision making and series of decisions were taken in last 7 years in the state.
“I don’t need to like or dislike Chief Minister and he does not have to be my buddy, but I look at him as my leader and he is a good Chief Minister, Lyngdoh told reporters.
Meanwhile, on the recent spree of dissolutions of Block Congress Committees in the state, she said that it was time for disciplining people who were not being indiscipline.
“Discipline is necessary… It is OK for Narendra Modi to discipline his ministers and telling them not to even attend cultural programmae and it is not OK for our party president or Chief Minister to discipline a couple of guys. Come on Get Real,” Lyngdoh told journalists.
Citing an example, she said that a father after seeing his child going astray would obviously straighten his children and different fathers used different methods of straightening and disciplining them
Stating that she has no insight as why the blocks Congress committees were dissolved, Lyngdoh said that its none of her business and she had no idea as what led to the dissolution of these block committees of the party.
Meanwhile, Lyngdoh has also hailed the decision of the BJP at the Centre to give the important portfolio of Defence Ministry to Nirmala Sitharaman saying she is a capable women who throughout the pre-election process was supporting her party in the line of the fire.
“I am happy that she has been made Defence Minister and it does not matter whether she is first or last,” Lyngdoh said.
Expressing her happiness over the fact that women are being recognized as capable, she added that women had been capable policy makers and legislators.
“Though she will face many problems and hurdles as Defence Minister, but I hope BJP will continue to recognise women of honour and woman of quality,” she added.
