SHILLONG: A day after around 500 people in Williamnagar joined the Congress, local MLA and senior party leader Deborah Marak asked people in Garo Hills not to look at any one but Mukul Sangma as their “tall leader”.
Speaking to The Shillong Times on Sunday, Marak said people don’t have any alternative except the Congress and they were looking at Mukul Sangma as their tall leader, which was why they were shifting their allegiance to the party.
“I don’t think there is any other tall leader in Garo Hills now except Mukul Sangma,” she said.
Before Marak, HDR Lyngdoh and Ampareen Lyngdoh too had supported Sangma saying they wanted him to continue as the leader of the party and the state.
Cabinet Minister Ronnie Lyngdoh, in a recent interview, had said the much talked about anti-incumbency wave would not affect the Congress in 2018.
Marcus, Jonathan yet to join Cong
Clarifying that Jonathan Sangma and Marcus Marak – two candidates who unsuccessfully contested in the 2013 elections in Williamnagar – have not joined the Congress but it is their supporters who have joined the party under her leadership, Deborah said many more of their supporters would also join the party soon.
She even claimed that if the chief minister contests from Songsak constituency, he would get more votes than Ampati constituency since people of Songsak have expectations that if Mukul Sangma contested from their constituency, it would have equal development like Ampati.
Terming Songsak as the most backward constituency in Meghalaya, Deborah said, “BJP has no chance of winning elections in Garo Hills and NPP exists only in a few places.”
