SHILLONG, Nov 4: The state unit of the BJP is banking on its development agenda to fare well in the Assembly elections, due early next year.
Currently, the BJP has two MLAs and the party is optimistic about winning seats in double-digit.
“Four months are left for the elections and the BJP is working hard to win all the 60 seats it decided to contest. We have formed the district and mandal committees and members of all the morchas –Kisan, Yuva and Mahila – are strengthening the units at the polling booth level,” BJP state president Ernest Mawrie said on Friday.
Claiming that people in the state are looking for an alternate government, he said, “It is the BJP as we have the agenda of development. We have implemented many schemes which benefitted the downtrodden.”
Mawrie asserted that the BJP has strong candidates and people are eager to vote for the party for good governance and development. “We will win seats in double-digit and form the government. No one can form the government without the BJP,” he said.
He said the schemes of the BJP-led central government are so popular at the grassroots level that many have given the free rice scheme a name, “Khaw Modi”.
“Most people in the state, especially women, have benefited from the central schemes and they want to vote for the BJP,” Mawrie said.
He ruled out pre-poll alliance stating, “As the biggest national party in India, we are not going to have any alliance. We will fight it alone”.
Citing Assam and its development, he said Meghalaya is yet to have a single medical or engineering college and the youth are frustrated due to the rising problem of unemployment.
Mawrie said the youth of the state will benefit from the ten lakh jobs which the Modi government is targeting to provide.
To a query, he said party’s state vice president Bernard Marak will contest the election and win it.
