SHILLONG: The UDP’s move to float a regional front is a farcical idea, Congress MLA Ampareen Lyngdoh has said.
Lyngdoh told reporters on Saturday that UDP cannot form a regional front when it is part of the BJP coalition.
“I cannot share my meal with the BJP and have armchair dialogues with other parties,” she said and demanded that the UDP should clear its stand.
Reacting to a query about the recent decision of the UDP to come out of NEDA and NDA, Lyngdoh said all the regional parties are in one front with the BJP.
“How can they say the UDP has nothing to do with the BJP when they are in the government with the BJP? They are saying something and doing something. I am having a problem in understanding and figuring out whether what is coming out of their mouth is true or what their hands are holding is correct,” Lyngdoh said.
Two BJP legislators are part of the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance. The NPP on Friday welcomed the move of the UDP.
“If the UDP has really walked out of NEDA and NDA, the party must show its withdrawal of support letter, besides moving out of the MDA coalition which even has BJP as alliance partner,” said Lyngdoh.
