By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Jan 6: This New Year is yet to turn over a new leaf within the Meghalaya Trinamool Congress (TMC) camp as the party remains not only undecided on crucial matters such as the Lok Sabha polls but the communication gap between the state leaders and the party’s high command still continues to be a big hurdle.
According to party insiders, TMC state president and its Parliamentary Party leader, Charles Pyngrope and Mukul Sangma respectively, seem to be adrift in their own worlds as the fate of the party hangs in balance.
If all indications are to be summed up into a single outcome, it may be likely that the TMC in Meghalaya will not field candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.
There have been reports of a move by the state TMC to merge with the BJP although TMC leaders Pyngrope and Sangma have discounted such a possibility.
On the other hand, the state BJP has neither confirmed nor denied reports that former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and other Trinamool Congress leaders have been discussing with the BJP higher-ups to join the saffron camp.
Earlier, a vernacular daily claimed four TMC legislators were desperate to change their political fortunes by joining the BJP bandwagon.
Sangma is said to have initiated the merger move.
Informed sources said his bête-noire, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, had the move short-circuited through his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is also the BJP’s top strategist in the region.
Although Mukul has denied it, speculations run still rife of his continuous effort to engage with top BJP leaders from outside the state for a safe passage.