Refrain from joining regional parties: MLA to youths

NONGSTOIN:  Gambegre MLA Saleng A Sangma has urged the youth of West Khasi Hills to refrain from joining regional parties as “they did not have a future and cannot last long” and instead join national parties like the NCP.
“Regional parties do not have a future and cannot last long,” Sangma said on the sidelines of the inauguration of the NCP office in West Khasi Hills on Saturday.
Speaking at the inaugural function at Free Morning School, the legislator urged the people to usher in a change in the Assembly elections next year.
Sangma said West Khasi Hills was still backward in terms of infrastructure, especially healthcare. “We don’t have a good hospital or a scanning machine,” he said.
He said political parties like UDP, HSPDP or INC could not change the constituency. “But the people can change it if they want to, and if they want a change they should fulfill when the time is right,” the MLA said.
“To change the government the people of the state should do something” Saleng said, reminding about Hoping Stone Lyngdoh who was a man of truth.
“But no one supported his ideas and his dreams as he represented a regional party. Had he been from a national party he would have fulfilled his dream,” he said.
Speaking on the occasion, former UDP president of Mawshynrut Andrew Gare who has been with the NCP for the last three months said the UDP had disappointed him and his supporters.
He said he contested twice against Savio Iawphniaw for the post of president of Mawshynrut Block and won but the party chief from West Khasi Hills did not approve his name.
Gare claimed that most of the Garo voters from Mawshynrut have convince him to join the NCP.
“Till date, the party (NCP) has 1050 members in West Khasi Hills,” Gare said.