SHILLONG, Dec 21: The All India Trinamool Congress-Meghalaya has once again sent feelers to the remaining five Congress MLAs to abandon their party and join the former.
“Our friends who could not decide that time should still explore the move. We have sent feelers to them to make a conscious decision and join us,” AITC-M leader, Mukul Sangma said on Tuesday.
Asserting that whatever they were doing was with complete clarity and without an iota of doubt, Sangma recollected his earlier statement on joining the AITC and said, “What has unfolded in the preceding months was a result of due diligence and conscious decision the 12 members of the then CLP had taken.”
Sangma had earlier reiterated that the remaining five Congress MLAs want to join the Trinamool Congress.
However, CLP leader Ampareen Lyngdoh had countered his statement and said, “We remain as an independent lobby in the opposition. We now have own mind, agenda and focus. We are not going to indulge in unhealthy politics with any member or lobby in the Assembly.”
Mukul is a betrayer: PN Syiem
Meanwhile, drawing parallels between the support Mukul Sangma had extended to the state government while passing the ILP resolution in the Assembly in 2019 and that of the State Congress’ decision to partner with the government on issues impacting the state, MPCC working president, PN Syiem said “Mukul is a betrayer” if his statement is anything to go by.
Syiem was reacting to the former CLP leader’s comment on the recent move of the Congress to partner with the state government as an act of betrayal against the people.
“It is very wrong to say that CLP has betrayed the people. It means that Dr Mukul has himself betrayed the people when he had stood up with the MDA to pass the ILP resolution,” Syiem said on Tuesday.
Syiem also recalled that the defectors had done the same while passing the resolution for the inclusion of Khasi and Garo languages in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.
