SHILLONG: The Nationalist Congress party (NCP) which has fielded candidates in 21 seats is quite optimistic that the party would win at least 10-15 seats in the upcoming polls.
Speaking to media persons here on Saturday, NCP candidate from South Shillong, Vikash Gupta said that the party has an ideology of co-existence, peace and development while expressing confidence that the party will do very well in different parts of the state.
Gupta, meanwhile, stressed that the youth need to be provided with a platform even as he lamented that the youth have been used as instrument by the politicians especially during elections.
Underlining that unemployment is increasing in the state, he said that it was important to make of youth aware of their power.
He said that he would focus on providing skill development training to the youth besides encouraging them for taking to the sports
“I have seen many youth who are graduate but they are still working as labourer because youth have not been taken care of,” he said.
Asserting that the giant MLAs of the constituency for the past many years have not done much for the constituency as it did not have many basic facilities like proper public toilet, drinking water facilities like water ATM for common people. He also said that the public distribution system in the constituency needed be streamlined.
It may be mentioned that the South Shillong constituency is witnessing a multi-cornered contest between BJP’s Sanbor Shullai, Congress’ Manas Chaudhuri, NPP’s Sounder Cajee, NCP’s Vikash Gupta and RPI’s Moon Lyngdoh.