SHILLONG: Meghalaya Chief Minister, Mukul Sangma has taken a dig at the senior Congress leaders including Prestone Tynsong who have shifted their allegiance towards the National People’s Party.
Talking to newsmen here on Wednesday, Mukul Sangma termed the defectors as habitual dissidents saying the party was happy for the fact that it had been able to get rid of such elements.
Sangma said that their defection to other parties was not a surprise as party knew who was going to join which party and party knew what was going to happen.
“When you have people who have positioned themselves to betray the party, it will have some complications and when we work collectively and coherently with complete dedication to the party we would have been stronger,” he said.
According to Sangma under prevailing political scenario in the nation, there are people looking at greener pastures by assuming and presuming that they stand to gain more as individuals.
“As we knew it, we are prepared for it,” Sangma added.
Responding to a query about the contention of the leaders who were vocal against Chief Minister, Sangma said that the leaders who left the party were the ones who tried to topple the State Government on several occasion and they were involved in moving No confidence motion against the Government and even the Speaker.
“They were acting as agents of political parties and opposition and they were habitual dissidents. For whose interest, there have been dissidents all these years and taking the whole state to ransom,” he told reporters.
He further said that its good for the party to get rid of such elements who for their self-centric interest would go to any extent to create a situation which is not good for the state and its people.
Mukul Sangma claimed that the National People’s Party (NPP) will remain a single-digit party in the state Assembly after elections next year adding that he has received the survey report on other political parties
Sangma maintained that the Congress would form a stable Government and party did not mind in one or two constituencies where a vacuum had been created.
When asked about the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which had criticized the Congress party despite being an ally in the Government, Sangma said that it was usual for political parties to criticize the Government when elections are nearing.
