By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Nov 12: The Congress party has asserted that the regional parties in the Northeast have realised that they will not reach anywhere by being friends with BJP and hence the idea of a new regional front has emerged.
Congress leader Manuel Badwar on Wednesday dismissed the emergence of the regional front as a threat to the party.
“It is a failure on the part of BJP as most of the regional parties have realised the futility of their friendship with the BJP and hence they felt the need for a new front,” he said while terming the move as “not a very good idea.”
On the NE regional parties maintaining equal distance from the Congress and BJP, Badwar said that is their philosophy of how they want to do things.
“If you start a new party it will cost you a lot of money, most of which will have to come from Meghalaya, and I don’t think the public at large will accept that,” he stated.
Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, TIPRA Motha founder Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, former Nagaland BJP leader Mmhonlumo Kikon, and founder of People’s Party, Assam, Daniel Langthasa had recently announced the creation of a new political party aimed at safeguarding the “rights of indigenous people” while asserting that respective parties would merge to form a single regional entity representing the interests of the Northeast.
Both Sangma’s NPP and TIPRA Motha–the key movers of the new front–are currently allies of the BJP.
