Shillong, Dec 18: Despite Congress party’s political posturing that they weren’t affected when 12 MLAs left it to join the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in the state recently, the party has accepted that the departure of the leaders has had a ‘very destructive’ effect on the party.
Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Ampareen Lyngdoh on Friday said, “The nature of the move away in itself was very destructive. We feel very defeated and very betrayed” adding that “this drama of the breakaway group has to come to a sudden death at some point of time. Don’t keep fueling it, it doesn’t make sense to fuel something which is destructive in itself.”
Lyngdoh was reacting to the request made by the former chief minister Mukul Sangma to the remaining five Congress legislators to also join the AITC.
She said that the TMC and the Congress were supposed to be a united opposition to fight an onslaught that is attacking secularism, individuality and local identities.
“But today we see the sudden ambition is blinding them (12 MLAs) instead of unanimously fighting a common enemy, they have made enemies amongst ourselves,” Lyngdoh stated.
She said that is why the Congress has decided to partner with the NPP-led MDA government as it is no longer anybody’s enemy or slave.
