Tura, June 5: If there was one takeaway from this election, it would have to be criticism.

This election had less of substance and more of insults and ridicule as leaders from the competing political parties tried to compensate for their lack of depth or substance with a volley of verbal attacks that fell below the belt.

From Rakkam A Sangma of the NPP’s Nostradamus predictions of “impending” defeat, Mukul Sangma’s poverty taunts to Zenith Sangma “Aping” the primates, election 2024 for Tura Lok Sabha parliamentary seat witnessed it all.

It took off with the state education minister Rakkam A Sangma’s soothsayer prediction on the outcome of the election results.

When news first trickled in about the Congress decision to field the Gambegre legislator against Agatha K Sangma, Rakkam had given a remark in Shillong.

“My brother Saleng will first taste the defeat in this MP election. This will be his first defeat,” so predicted Rakkam Sangma with absolute “surety” that, post June 4th results, he seemed to have lost his voice.

Joining the bandwagon was none other than former chief minister and Trinamool legislative leader Mukul Sangma who went as far as to question the financial standing of the Congress candidate.

“Does Saleng have the money to contest an MP election?” Mukul Sangma had taunted snidely.

Little was he to know that the Congress candidate had already latched onto voters concerns about the situation unfolding in the country under a BJP rule where minorities were being targeted.

And then, along comes Zenith with his lowly gibbon comments that riled up congress supporters who took it upon themselves as a challenge to teach the TMC leader a lesson through the voters response. The rest we all know is history.