Shillong, Oct 20: Suspended Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Ampareen Lyngdoh on Thursday said it is better to gracefully leave the Congress while the going is good.
She was expressing disappointment at the manner in which the Congress’ presidential election was held and the controversies that followed.
Speaking to reporters, Lyngdoh said if a very senior Congressman like Shashi Tharoor sees that there has been some deviation from the prescribed norms, then she would go with him because she knows him personally.
Tharoor lost the race after he was defeated by Mallikarjun Karge, the newly elected Congress president.
She said it is very sad to see that again this controversy rises; the way it is being handled is what worries her the most while adding “I wish they would have handled it a little more elegantly.”
Stating that everybody was expecting that there will be a general revamping of the Congress from the top, the East Shillong MLA however said, “But when you look at what is being discussed in the news, how much of it is true and how much of it is false… but it just boils down to a single line… looks like we are crashing down further.”
Doubting that the whole situation would give the Congress a good image, Lyngdoh said that people like her who are still in the Congress only get reconfirmed that maybe it is time to move on as there is no other way out or no other option.
“As much as we love the Congress, as much as we respect the Congress for its ideologies but when these kinds of controversies come to the forefront then we, who are already one leg outside, would like to leave gracefully while the going is good. Sad but it is a fact,” she asserted.
She further added, “When I look at Rajasthan and I see the drama happening in Rajasthan, it is very worrisome. State after state after state we see the degeneration of the Congress, the erstwhile grand old party, and we have no choice but to say that we will leave while the going is good.”
When asked, the suspended CLP leader said, “The revamping that is done is now being questioned and scrutinized then you have to worry whether we still have that ground to revamp anything because I see more and more seniors are going away and it is very disheartening, it is very depressing and I would think a lot more has to be done to see that revamping take shape on the ground.”
She concluded by saying, “Right now I don’t see it happening and I don’t foresee it happening in the immediate future. I really don’t know but it is very unfortunate.”
