This election will be the last for Manas: Sanbor

SHILLONG, FEB 6: BJP leader and former legislator of South Shillong Sanbor Shullai today claimed that he would ensure that this coming election will be the last of Congress’s nominee Manas Chaudhuri’s political career.

“I will defeat him (Manas) again and this time by a margin of over 15,000 votes and I will ensure this will be the last for his political career,” Shullai told reporters after filing his nominations here on Tuesday.

This came a day after the former minister Manas Chaudhuri was named as the Congress candidate from South Shillong constituency. Chaudhuri decided to join the Congress after he was denied ticket by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Reacting to Manas’s claim that the BJP is a close chapter in the constituency, Shullai however said, “He was denied ticket after the leadership in New Delhi calculated that how can people vote for a man who is sleeping for past 5 years and a man who is not accessible (to the people).”

He further accused the former legislator of misusing his newspaper and said, “In the last 2013 election, he publishes fabricated statement against me but that was defeated by the voters.”

Asked, the former Assembly’s deputy speaker, who left the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and joined the BJP, last month, said that he will surely retain the seat again in the upcoming Assembly polls, to be held on February 27.

According to him, he has won many elections – five times as MDCs and two times as MLA even though he had contested from different political parties.

On reason for his joining the BJP, Shullai said that it was because the NCP as it is has no future.

“It is only a matter of time that when Sharad Pawar retires, the party will also disappear. So I have to look at a party which is strong and that is what I did after consulting with my people,” he said.

He said that BJP under leadership of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is the only party which can bring development not only to the constituency in particular but also to the state as a whole.

By Our Reporter