SHILLONG, Aug 22: The bickering within the Meghalaya unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be far from over despite calls to the party leaders to resolve their differences.
The infighting has made the BJP’s Meghalaya in-charge M Chuba Ao decide to discuss the issue with the party’s general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh.
Ao on Monday said he is going to meet Santosh in the next couple of days in Nagaland and discuss the problems afflicting the party’s Meghalaya unit.
Stating that the central leadership of the party is well aware of the problems in the party here, Ao said he and Santosh would try to work out a way of resolving the issues ahead of the 2023 Assembly elections.
The BJP in Meghalaya seems to be divided into different groups. This was evident from a programme state party president Ernest Mawrie attended at the BJP’s regional office in Tura on Monday.
A BJP insider said almost all senior party leaders and office-bearers in the Garo Hills region skipped the meeting Mawrie had convened.
He said the top leaders abstained from the meeting in protest against his contradictory statements.
The BJP state chief interacted with a few party leaders and about 300 karyakartas who attended the programme, he claimed.
Among the prominent leaders were the national executive member of the BJP’s Kisan Morcha Charles M Sangma, state executive member Edmund K Sangma and former MLA Bluebell R Sangma.
Mawrie also met the party’s in-charge of various districts and the heads of the Mahila, Yuva and other Morchas.
