Meghalaya polls: NCP looking for allies; says NPP will face anti-incumbency
First Published: 19th December, 2022 18:50 IST
The NCP is now mulling to join hands with other forces and make the impact. The NCP leadership while keeping the cards close to their chest have revealed that the
It’s election time in Meghalaya amid the Christmas joy and festivities. While new equations are cooking up in the political spectrum, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has also upped it’s efforts to devise a strategy and fight the battle.
Speculations are high that if everything falls in place, than a new coalition might emerge in the runup to the elections or thereafter. Such is the possibility since the NCP is now mulling to join hands with other forces and make the impact. The NCP leadership while keeping the cards close to their chest have revealed that the party is looking for a pre-poll alliance, with elections just a few months away.
Meanwhile, the NCP has gone a step ahead with this purpose. The party said, that it is already in talks with the regional forces. To make things more precise NCP national general secretary Narendra B Verma said deliberations have already begun with the People’s Democratic Front (PDF) to discuss the pre-poll alliance issue.
“Yes, initially we are in talks with the PDF who have 4 MLAs from Khasi Hills, our preliminary discussion with the President and the working President have already taken place. I am in Shillong. So tonight or tomorrow morning we are going to have another round of talks with them,” NCP national general secretary Narendra B Verma said.
The NCP leader also feels that in all probability there will be a fractured mandate and believes that there is a lot of anti-incumbency against the ruling MDA dispensation.
Meanwhile, Narendra B Verma alleged that there was resentment among the MLAs in the Conrad Sangma led NPP for which many of the legislators have already defected. “They are going to face the consequences of anti-incumbency,” the NCP leader observed.
Not only this the NCP leaders also feels that there is some kind of unrestness among the MLAs of TMC, whom he referred to as defectors from the Congress under the leadership of former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma. Narendra B Verma said that West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee could not taste success despite making all out efforts to consolidate in Meghalaya as well as other parts of Northeast.
At the end, NCP national general secretary Narendra B Verma also exuded confidence that his party will end up with good results in the election results under the leadership of Meghalaya NCP president Saleng Sangma, but refused to comment on the numbers.
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