By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Dec 12: The VPP on Tuesday attacked the NPP for making foolish remarks about other political parties while ignoring their founding members and history.
Cabinet minister and NPP spokesperson Ampareen Lyngdoh recently said that the VPP is just the same old political players in a new bottle and making the same old claims to be innovative.
“Speaking in such a way is to be expected from someone like Dr Ampareen; she has been involved in jumping ships and finds it so simple that she is unaware of her own actions. Thus, she is unable to perceive anything that is different because she is so blinded by her own actions,” VPP spokesperson Batskhem Myrboh told The Shillong Times.
“Tell me how many people in the VPP have defected from other political parties,” he questioned while pointing out that the leaders who have joined the VPP have not altered their ideologies.
“It is very interesting that this statement comes from the NPP spokesperson; this is a political party that has forgotten its political history,” he said.
He drew attention to the fact that the NPP’s banners feature images of people who joined the party much later rather than the original members.
“I ask Dr Ampareen to study the NPP’s past and attempt to present the party in an appropriate light by choosing the appropriate image for its banner. Let the NPP’s true founders appear on the flag,” he declared.
“The NPP was founded in Manipur. NPP’s origins can be traced back to the 1980s.
The current NPP leadership only joined the organisation in 2012, and since then, they have grown in prominence while the party’s founders have been forgotten. Any party that ignores its true founders is not telling the truth,” he asserted.
“The people of Meghalaya have understood very well, and the more they (NPP) speak like that, the more the people understand the shallowness of their argument,” he added.
“They are only making a mockery of themselves, and they ought to realise that people are not that stupid. Instead, they ought to appreciate people for their ability to reason. Do not assume that people are so stupid as to believe that statements made by thoughtless politicians are true,” he stated.