SHILLONG, APR 21: Politics will be politics for the Congress in the upcoming bye-election to the Tura Lok Sabha seat notwithstanding the sympathy support sought by the National People’s Party (NPP) soon after demise of its leader PA Sangma.
According to the chief minister, such sympathy is viewed as an attempt to put an individual before the state and the people.
“I don’t subscribe that after Mukul’s death there should be sympathy for anybody, no… I think the state and the people should come first,” Sangma told reporters on Thursday.
Agreeing that everybody who had the privilege of serving the people deserves the acknowledgement of whatever they have contributed, Sangma said, “I do not subscribe to the idea of putting an individual before the state or the people.”
His statement assumes significant in view of the National People’s Party (NPP) having sought sympathy support from all political parties to retain the Tura seat.
The bye-election will be held on May 16 following the death of former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Agitok Sangma, who was also national president of the NPP.
The chief minister also informed that the party would convene a meeting this evening to finalize the official candidate to contest the bye-polls, since the filing of nomination will start from tomorrow.
“We will take a call on this and would accordingly inform the party’s high command for its approval,” Sangma said while refusing to divulge the party probable candidate for the election.
He also said that the poll preparedness of a party, which has been given the mandate to form the government, will be to convince the people that it is trying in a humble way to live up to their expectation in as far as the promises that are reflected in the party’s manifesto.
Earlier, the ruling Congress was made to take its place in the opposition after being defeated in the last elections of the GHADC.
Asked whether the upcoming by polls will be a test for the Congress, Sangma however said, “Every election is a test for the party.”
He however clarified that party’s poor performance in the last GHADC election was due to various reasons including overlapping of constituencies in view of the delimitation process that could not be taken place.
Another issue pointed by him was the lack of unanimity in the selection of candidates. According to him, besides the issue of perception of electorates, the performance of the MLAs will also be a determining factor.- By Our Reporter
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