SHILLONG: United Democratic Party (UDP) working president and party candidate from West Shillong, Paul Lyngdoh has alleged that business sharks in the state were trying to capture power which was a dangerous trend for Meghalaya.
Talking to media persons after filing his nominations with other UDP candidates here on Tuesday, Paul Lyngdoh said that he did not even have a worthy competitor as his opposition candidate did not have education, experience and ethics.
“When a person lacks all the three qualities, what kind of competition do I have,” Lyngdoh said even as he added that he would work on three Es – economy, education and environment, when he is elected for the next terms.
He also asserted that he was contesting the polls this time not against an individual but against criminalization of politics, cash power and cartelization of politics which will be defeated on March 3.
He said that criminalisation of politics, cash power and cartelisation of politics were three immediate dangers when business sharks try to capture political power as they would try to consolidate their own empire at the cost of people of the state.
“When their business comes into conflict with the people of Meghalaya, they will first safeguard and protect their own business and the interest of Meghalaya becomes secondary for them,” Lyngdoh told reporters
Lyngdoh also made a clarion call for the religious bodies and church to come more vigorously against the trends of criminalisation of politics, cash power and cartelisation of politics
According to Lyngdoh, it is a wakeup call for Meghalaya to choose candidate on the basis of experience, education and ethics if it wants functioning, effective oriented Government.
“I have defeated a major business empire in the past and we are going to do it again,” he said.
It may be mentioned that West Shillong constituency was witnessing a direct fight between UDP’s Paul Lyngdoh and Congress’s Mohendro Rapsang.
The 2013 Assembly elections to o was a direct fight between Paul Lyngdoh and Mohendro Rapsang in which Paul Lyngdoh managed to secure a win by a small margin of over 481 votes.
