‘NPP supported UPA like NDA’

SHILLONG: NPP leader Prestone Tynsong has downplayed the issue of his party supporting the BJP-led NDA saying that the parent party, NCP had supported the UPA government in the past and nobody had ever pointed a finger at it for doing so.

To a question as to whether NPP leader Conrad Sangma should withdraw support to the NDA, Tynsong said: “What is the Congress up to? The support of the NPP to the BJP-led NDA is at the national level and not at the state level”.

Tynsong added that when the current NPP leaders were with NCP, they had supported the Congress at the Centre and not at the state level.

Asked about the allegations hurled at the NPP for its nexus with the BJP, the party leader said that in several constituencies the BJP has put up candidates against NPP which goes to show that the Congress is engaging in futile propaganda to mislead the people.

“It is not a fact that the NPP is a B team of the BJP. In my constituency, too, the BJP has put up a candidate,” he said.

Earlier, the NPP state president had refuted allegations that the NPP is part and parcel of the BJP claiming that his party had its own ideology and political objectives.