TURA: The BJP is leaving no stone unturned before the Assembly elections next year. The party is holding rallies and meetings even in the holiday season to strengthen its organisational structure at the grassroots level.
On Wednesday, the saffron party chose Selsella, Congress MLA and minister Clement Marak’s bastion, for a mammoth rally of its booth-level workers or karyakartas.
Addressing the booth level workers at Haldibari village, Golakganj MLA from Assam Ashwini Rai Sarkar exuded confidence that the next five years would be of BJP in Meghalaya.
“The Congress is being rejected by the people in several states of the North East. They have been voted out of power in Assam and Manipur recently, lost Arunachal Pradesh and has failed to make a comeback in Nagaland and Tripura. Soon the people of Meghalaya will throw them out of power because of their corrupt practices,” said Sarkar.
The Assam leader accused Mukul Sangma of encouraging “family politics” and neglecting credible party leaders from progressing leading to large scale desertions. He cited the example of the chief minister’s wife and his younger brother getting party tickets and becoming legislators while his sister-in-law is an MDC in the GHADC.
“The Congress in Meghalaya has encouraged corruption and patronised corrupt officers whereas in Assam we have put in jail scores of officers for the same crime. If BJP comes to power in Meghalaya, corrupt officers will not be spared,” said Sarkar while citing the recent arrest of several Assam civil service officers.
BJP state vice president Sumitra Banerjee alleged that the Congress was taking credit for central projects and said schemes launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi were either not implemented or were misrepresented.
“The Congress is even trying to take credit for PM Modi’s mega scheme Ujjwala Yojana that provides free LPG connection for poor families and distribution of LED bulbs. People need to know the truth,” said Banerjee.
Others who spoke on the occasion included BJP state president Shibun Lyngdoh and GHADC MDC and minority Morcha head Sofiur Rahman.
