SHILLONG: Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tyngsong along with NPP candidate Martin M. Danggo on Friday visited Rangthong to seek the mandate of the people for the by-poll to Ranikor constituency to be held on 23rd August, 2018.
Addressing the rally, Tynsong said that it had always been the policy of the party under the leadership of Conrad Sangma to never indulge in mudslinging or negative campaigning during elections and the party stood for positivity and fairness and it fights elections based on principles and issues that concern the common people.
Prestone Tyngsong was drawing attention to a recent report that came out in some local papers about a leader from a political party who branded Danggo a “defector”.
He clarified that under the Constitution, an MLA who resigns from his post to re-contest the seat is ‘not’ a defector and Danggo shouldn’t be called a defector because he had first resigned from the post of MLA and from the Congress party and then joined the NPP.
Talking about agenda of the NPP under the leadership of Conrad Sangma, Tyngsong said that various projects were already on the anvil to further improve infrastructure and livelihoods of the people of the region which includes the SARDP road project and the re-opening of border haats.
Ex-MLA of Ranikor constituency and NPP candidate Martin M. Danggo recounted the struggle that he undertook to get the civil sub-division for Ranikor when Dr D D Lapang and Dr. Mukul Sangma were chief ministers of the state.
He said that despite numerous requests and prayer, both of them refused to consider the case for many years. In desperation, he and his party workers decided to approach Chief Minister Conrad Sangma to demand for the civil sub-division for Ranikor this year. Taking into consideration the genuine needs of the people of the constituency, the MDA government under the leadership of Conrad Sangma granted the request.
He said he resigned from the post of MLA as a mark of gratitude to chief minister Conrad Sangma and because he believed that NPP was the only party that could bring about real development to the people of the region and the state as a whole.
