Shillong, July 4: The Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) has decided to pull out of the Regional Democratic Alliance (RDA) following the defeat in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

Informing this on Thursday, United Democratic Party (UDP) leader and cabinet minister Paul Lyngdoh said, “There are multiple factors for the failure of the RDA candidate, which is why as you can see even the HSPDP has decided to pull out of the RDA.”

“So these are the factors that are important points to take into account. Now a lot of factors are at work and one of them was also the fact that we could not calvinized our entire cadre in a manner that we should have done and the decision of the RDA, the name of the candidate was declared at the eleventh hour, a year after the VPP candidate has gone touring around,” he said.

Asked, Lyngdoh said, “Yes, they (HSPDP) have expressed their unwillingness to continue with the RDA. You might say we might think that it is better that we walk different ways since we could not touch 5 percent of the total votes this time. Probably had we contested as UDP alone, we could have crossed that. So these are all in the realm of probability.”

“That was an expression made by the HSPDP but we need to meet formally and settle all these issues,” he added.

The HSPDP and the UDP had jointly fielded former HYC president Robertjune Kharjahrin from Shillong parliamentary constituency.

Only recently, HSPDP president KP Pangniang had indicated that his party has decided contest on its own the upcoming ADC elections in the KHADC and JHADC.

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