SHILLONG, Jan 2: State Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, Saleng Sangma, has urged the party’s high command to be more responsible and active in Meghalaya reasoning that it will be the factor on which the future of the party will depend.
“I cannot predict the future. It depends on how actively the NCP high command supports. We just had the convention in first week of December, there was a national convention amongst the leaders,” said Sangma while reacting to a query on the likely future of the NCP in the state in view of the upcoming 2023 Assembly polls.
Stating that he is talking about the seriousness of the NCP, Saleng said, “If NCP is serious than its okay as they are in the government in Maharashtra and they have few MPs also and they are raising people issues, the ideology is good and they have done good for farmers and we were planning the same here but the response is little low.”
“I have urged them to be more responsible and activeness is required,” he added.
With regard to the AITC-Meghalaya push in the state, the NCP state president said, “Everywhere I am seeing TMC is rounding up for 2023 election and its 2022. Peoples’ memory last for only three months and they will forget it, so for 2023 whatever rounding up being done by any of the party may not be remembered.”
Asked whether AITC legislator Zenith Sangma’s wife is said to be pitched against him in the 2023 polls, Sangma said, “I was a lone candidate when I was in the opposition independent MLA, right now I am in the government and the response from the people are better.”
“It is their choice and right to field and if people feel I am good let it be me and if they feel someone is better let them choose them. It is the people who ultimately decide, I am not a threat to anyone and nobody is a threat to me,” he added.
To a query on whether or not he is considering to contest from any other party, the NCP State president said, “Right now it is too early to speak. I can be NPP can be anybody tomorrow. I am not saying that will happen but right now as NCP president, I will stick with NCP.”
