HILLONG: As Megha-laya goes to polls, political parties are making tall claims of winning maximum number seats and bringing political stability in 2013.
While the candidates of various political parties chose to initiate door-to-door campaign for the last few months, many political parties will uncover their strategies in the days to come.
However, major political parties are confident that they will get more seats than what they have now. While the Congress with a present tally of 28 legislators in the House of 60 hopes to get absolute majority, its rival UDP which is strong in Khasi-Jaintia Hills, claims that the party will emerge as the single largest party in the upcoming election.
“We are working hard to get absolute majority and with the Chief Minister initiating several schemes, the situation is favourable for the Congress,” Congress working president Deborah Marak said over phone from Williamnagar on Monday.
Marak reiterated that the Congress would come back to power with a better performance in Garo Hills.
However, the UDP working president Paul Lyngdoh has a different take on this. According to him UDP would emerge as the single largest party as the people want a credible alternative.
“There is a growing support for UDP in areas especially in Jaintia Hills where it did not have a single legislator,” Lyngdoh said.
The UDP leader also said the party has become more acceptable to the people as there is an anti-Congress mood.
The UDP has 10 legislators in the current Assembly including Lyngdoh who joined the party after leaving KHNAM.
Another major political outfit, newly-formed NPP is also looking at either retaining 15 seats which it had won in 2008 as NCP or even getting more in Garo Hills.
The Opposition Leader Conrad Sangma recently said that the party has geared up to improve its performance.
The recent rally organized by NPP in Tura West Garo Hills and addressed by NPP leader PA Sangma had attracted a huge crowd.
Other political parties in Meghalaya like HSPDP, NCP and BJP among others have also made claims and counter claims by saying that they will make more impact in the upcoming elections compared to the past.
