By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Jan 21: As the war of words between coalition partners NPP and UDP is hotting up, the Congress has begun to see an opportunity for itself.
On Saturday, a party functionary said that while the MDA partners are engaged in blame game, the people are disillusioned and have started reposing faith in the grand-old party.
Senior Congress leader Ronnie V Lyngdoh said that be it government employees or labourers, people in Meghalaya want Congress back in power because the previous Congress government in the state was far better than the present dispensation.
The Congress probably for the first time in its history in Meghalaya is contesting elections with almost cent per cent uninitiated and young faces, barring the few senior leaders who already are multiple-time MLAs.
However, Lyngdoh feels that it is not that voters always vote for old people, while recalling the Gujarat elections where the BJP dropped almost 40 per cent of its sitting legislators and denied them tickets as their performance was not satisfactory. “We stand for secularism and upholding the national values enshrined in the Constitution and people are even complaining about this MDA Government which has so many senior people but there are complaints about poor delivery mechanism,” Lyngdoh said.
Reminding that Congress is more than 135 years old party, he said that though the party may not have any sitting MLAs right now, it is a fact that the Congress had secured the highest number of seats in 2018 Assembly polls.
“Some have died and some may have defected but this time we may even cross the magic figure and if not we are surely going to be the party with the highest number of MLAs,” Lyngdoh felt.
