SHILLONG, MAR 22: NPP candidate from Shillong parliamentary constituency and cabinet minister Ampareen Lyngdoh was the first to file her nomination papers for the forthcoming elections to the 18th Lok Sabha, to be held on April 19.
She was accompanied by the two deputy chief ministers – Prestone Tynsong and Sniawbhalang Dhar, cabinet minister Comingone Ymbon, KHADC chief Pyniaid Sing Syiem, MLAs – Santa Mary Shylla and Wailadmiki Shylla and hundreds of supporters from the NPP state office to the DC’s office.
Before this, the five-time legislator of East Shillong also paid rich tribute in front of her father’s bust (L) Peter Garnette Marbaniang, who was also a former MP of Shillong, at Laitumkhrah.
Speaking to reporters, Lyngdoh said, “It is an important day for us where we willingly offer our candidatures as nominated official candidate of the NPP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.”
“I have completed my journey through 36 constituencies. I have covered over hundreds of kilometers in about 3 and a half months before. Yesterday, I was able to go to the last segments of my constituency. I feel satisfied that I now am familiar with what I need to do. I know that there is much expectation but again like we said, we are here to serve the people and I will try my best to serve to the best of my capacity,” she said.
“I am very fortunate that I have the NPP’s entire team behind me. I am happy that my family, my husband, my brothers, my sisters, my children are all by my side. We will give our best and we leave it in the hands of the people, please vote for me as the most eligible candidate from the menu of candidates that you have and I hope that in this I shall be able to enter the next chapter of my political career,” she added.
Lyngdoh said there is no anti-incumbency for the NPP as far as MP election is concerned adding that the question should be asked to the concerned person, who has been MP for past many years.
“However, we as a political party are now way ahead in our service to the people, people of Shillong constituency are familiar with governmental plans, proposals. We have a very specific blueprint that will take Meghalaya forward and reiterate, we have no anti-incumbency in the MP elections,” she said.
Stating this is the first time that NPP is contesting the MP election from Shillong seat, Lyngdoh said, “We hope that this will give us a clean chit in the first instance. You come back for incumbency after five years and then we will talk to you about the good things that we have done.”
Asked if it would be a challenge to unseat the Congress, Lyngdoh said that she is familiar with the Congress turf and she would definitely use it to her advantage.
“We have seen that there are no permanent positions both in parties nor positions in the legislature or in the executive. I believe that having work with few political parties, who are fielding if not directly themselves as candidates but at least I have worked with them. I know the pulse, I know the mind and the modus operandi, I am familiar with their turfs and their support and because we come from a very close knit support system, I feel I will be advantage in this service that I will give to the people and the fight that I will place for myself in the elections. I am familiar with their turf and I will use that to my advantage,” she said.
Refusing to talk anything against the other political parties, the cabinet minister said, “I am not here to debate rivalry. Let us put this again in the right perspective. I am contesting this election on behalf of the NPP, I will not talk about my rivals nor will I consider them in a rivalry position, I will do my own thing, I will go forward and talk about the NPP’s candidature and my own candidature, I will not discuss, who spitted against us, it doesn’t really matter, I do my own thing, I gave my own proposal before the people in my candidature and to me that is sufficient.”
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