SHILLONG, MAR 27:United Democratic Party (UDP) leader and cabinet minister Paul Lyngdoh said the Regional Democratic Alliance (RDA) has a better chance to win the Shillong parliamentary seat. He stated that Congress is a ‘spent force’ and the Voice of the People Party (VPP) is just a ‘district wise party’.
Speaking to media persons on Wednesday, Lyngdoh said Shillong used to be a Congress bastion but with the changed dynamics of politics in India, Congress lost it stronghold, which is a boon for regional parties like UDP and an alliance like RDA.
There is an aversion towards the BJP, the fact that they didn’t put up a candidate in Meghalaya shows that they know that there is no point for them to contest. VPP is a newcomer in electoral politics and it doesn’t have any presence except in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya.
“In one district out of twelve districts of Meghalaya, VPP has a presence, so it can’t even call itself a regional party, it’s not even a statewide party, it’s a district wise party,”Lyngdoh further stated.
He further added, “we are fighting in an era where leading national leading party is not contesting the elections, NPP has chosen to ally with that party, Meghalaya has always voted against BJP, Congress is a spent force and VPP has a presence only in East Khasi Hills district, now, whose chances of winning are bit brighter, is obvious.”
He stated that UDP is number one leading party in the Khasi-Jaintia sector, Lyngdoh said, “the fact that we have 12 MLAs and have won the maximum number of constituencies in the Khasi-Jaintia sector.
At one point of time seven out of seven constituencies of Jaintia Hills were won by the UDP. NPP only won a minuscule number of seats and that apart, even in the ADCs, it was UDP that initially had the number but because of the absence of the Tenth Schedule, there were a lot of floor crossing leading to NPP leading the EC in the KHADC.” he further added.
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