TURA, Feb 18: Congress candidate from North Tura Billykid A Sangma has expressed his anger at the BJP, NPP and UDP after all three parties blamed each other over corruption in the run-up to the Assembly polls. “Turning on each other at this time when they all were part of the same government and equally involved in all cases of corruption does not make any sense. What stopped them from taking action when they knew corruption was taking place in the first place,” asked Billykid.
Billy is in a contest of equals and is pitted against the NPP’s Thomas Sangma, TMC’s Rupert Sangma and his own nephew, Adamkid Sangma of the BJP. Confident of doing well, Billy felt that the real competition would come from the NPP as the TMC votes were already divided. Adamkid had earlier tried for a TMC ticket before joining the BJP. “This is the most corrupt government we have ever seen in the history of the state. There is a saying that ‘Never judge a book by its cover’. The NPP’s symbol is a book and people had hoped that they would do good work. However when you open the book and its pages, every chapter has only been about corruption,” stated Billy.
The Congressman stated that the state has seen Saubhagya corruption, corruption in coal, education, COVID among others that the government has to answer for.
People are fed up with this government and want change, felt Billy, while adding that the Congress was on the up and would be the biggest party in the state.
Billy added that the government had really failed to address education issues at the primary level and this has caused a serious issue. “Primary schools are in bad shape as there are no facilities, teachers and infrastructure. The first thing would be to address this as first priority,” he said.
On his own chances in the upcoming elections, Billy said he was confident of a win due to the positive feedback he was getting. “I have changed my constituency from South to North Tura as most of the Maharis are here as well as family and friends. Their support to my campaign is what had led me to believe that I will win. Overall in Garo Hills, we are looking good to win in 9 seats and are close in 3 more,” said Billy.
Billy said that his vision for his constituency was empowerment of women as well as providing support to the youth of Tura.
