SHILLONG, April 16: PDF working president Banteidor Lyngdoh on Sunday said that the final decision on the merger of the party with the National People’s Party (NPP) will be taken by the party’s central executive committee (CE).
“The CEC will take a decision after weighing the pros and cons. It would be too premature for me to say if the merger will really take place,” the PDF MLA from Mawkynrew said here.
On the allegations that the PDF’s merger with the NPP was meant to serve his individual interest and that of party president, Gavin Miguel Mylliem, he said, “Everyone seems to forget that the party was the last one to support the NPP-led MDA 2.0 Government.”
“I want to make it very clear that it (merger) is not for the sake of a Cabinet berth or any position in the government,” he said.
Making it clear that the party will take a decision at an appropriate time, he said, “We are not in a rush. I would urge the people not to assume or presume things.”
Earlier, the PDF chief had admitted that the NPP leadership had approached the PDF with the proposal for a merger. “Discussion between the leadership of both the parties is still on. We are yet to take a decision. Let us see how things shape up,” Mylliem had said.
The PDF working president had also said that the NPP leadership had made an offer even before the formation of the MDA 2.0 Government.
According to him, the proposal for a merger came from both the national and state leadership of the NPP.
“We have already had a series of discussions with the NPP leadership on the merger. We also had one round of meeting among the party leaders to discuss the same,” Lyngdoh had said.
