SHILLONG, Jan 3: State BJP president Ernest Mawrie said many within the party who had campaigned for his removal from the post have joined Congress while some are going to join the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC).
The state BJP has been troubled by infighting for quite some time now.
“I came to know that many of them will not remain in the party. Some of them have already joined Congress and some will join the AITC,” Mawrie said on Monday, reacting to the campaign against him.
He said the mission of this group is to spoil the party image and leave. They had never been wholeheartedly with the party, he added.
Stating that he has not received any complaints about him officially from anyone, Mawrie recalled that he was elected as the president unopposed and his term will be over in 2023.
He claimed that he has been working day and night to strengthen the party in Meghalaya and had even offered to discuss the issues with the dissident group.
“I am working on the direction of the central party leaders and I think they are happy with me,” he said.
Insisting that he has not done anything wrong, Mawrie said the party’s state office-bearers and district leaders are with him.
“I will be on the chair as long as our party high command wants me. The moment they say I am unfit, I will quit the chair,” he said.
The BJP’s national vice-president and Meghalaya-in-charge, M. Chuba Ao had admitted to a rift within the party over the leadership issue.
The dissident group had recently revived the oust-Mawrie campaign after a five-month silence.
