Mukul cautions Lapang against joining NPP

SHILLONG: Former chief minister Mukul Sangma has cautioned veteran leader DD Lapang against joining the NPP calling the move “a mistake”.
The opposition leader told reporters on Wednesday that Lapang is a seasoned leader who had received all benefits when he was in the Congress and “I hope he will recollect his glorious past and the long political innings and realign his thinking and future course of action”.
Stating that he cannot stop Lapang from joining any party, Sangma advised him not to commit a mistake and “create a perception in the minds of the people of the state which will undo all the love, respect and honour which they have for the veteran leader”.
Sangma also blamed the BJP and the NPP for poaching leaders from other parties and cited the example of MM Danggo, who lost the by-poll in Ranikor in August.
‘Visit North East policy’
Targeting the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, Sangma said after coming to power in 2014, the BJP had made tall promises of taking special care of the North East and even spoke about Act East Policy but now it “has been reduced to mere ‘Visit North East policy’ by the ministers of the BJP at the cost of public exchequer” without any benefits to the region.