SHILLONG, Feb 23: TMC candidate from Jowai, Andrew Shullai on Thursday alleged that NPP candidate and sitting MLA, Wailadmiki Shylla was spending money in the constituency to woo the voters.
Shullai’s statement comes in the wake of a viral audio clipping where the sitting MLA (Shylla) is allegedly offering money to someone. The authenticity of the audio clipping could not be verified by The Shillong Times.
Reacting to the audio clipping, Shullai said NPP does not have any agenda or development to highlight and the party and its candidate were just offering money to people in return for their vote.
They are just trying to seek people’s support through money, he stated.
“A large amount of is being spent and this is a very bad precedence, something I have never seen before,” the TMC candidate said, adding that even first-time voters are now demanding “something” in order to cast their votes.
Asserting that his campaigning was picking up pace and that he would win the election with a huge margin, Shullai said the sitting MLA was missing for the last five years.
“Immediately after winning in 2018, the MLA went missing for five years and had lost touch with the people,” he said, while pointing out that long-pending demands like BEd College, hospital and construction of the Iawmusiang Market was yet to see the light of the day.
On the issue of illegal mining and transportation of coal in Jaintia Hills, the TMC candidate said, “It is an open secret that illegal mining is going on. Only a few people are running the illegal coal business.”
