Addressing an election rally within the North Tura constituency, he appealed to the folk to vote for the BJP, promising to finish corruption within the state.
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Meghalaya elections: Ex-CM Mukul Sangma says it’s going to be TMC vs all events in state
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TURA: Former Meghalaya Leader Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) stalwart Dr Mukul Sangma mentioned the February 27 elections within the state can be a competition between the TMC and all different events in combination.
Pointing out that the TMC can be a “issue” for different events, he claimed that the folks’s need for a metamorphosis was once “palpable” and “visual” at the floor.
“As we pass to elections, the TMC is on one aspect and the opposite events in combination are at the different aspect. The (six) events within the ruling dispensation have all the time been in combination but if they pass to election hustings, they display their respective identification. On the other hand, the folk of the state are totally conscious about the bottom realities. There’s a need for a metamorphosis,” Sangma claimed whilst speaking to this newspaper at the sidelines of a TMC rally at Rangsakona, 40 km from Tura within the Garo Hills.
He mentioned this is a query of which celebration folks can take the duty of charting the way forward for the state, including that Meghalaya is a sufferer of now not only a loss of governance however the greed of politicians.
Sangma additionally mentioned that the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, which Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma’s Nationwide Folks’s Celebration (NPP) heads, was once going through more than a few fees of corruption and that every one its constituents had been jointly chargeable for it.
Sangma then slammed the federal government over the unlawful mining of coal and the non-appointment of number one faculty lecturers. He mentioned many government-run number one faculties are closed as a result of lecturers weren’t appointed to vacant posts. “The federal government has intentionally not on time the beginning of the criminal coal mining procedure as a result of this permits it to proceed to interact in the type of illegalities which can be happening which has drawn the eye of the judiciary. The size at which it is going on can not occur with out the patronage of government. Coal isn’t a state matter however a central authorities matter. How can the BJP stay silent?” he requested.
The state will witness a multi-party contest. The TMC, NPP, BJP and Congress are contesting all 60 seats. Then, there are a number of smaller regional events.
The Congress had emerged as the one biggest celebration in 2018 by way of successful 21 seats however the NPP shaped a coalition authorities with fortify from the BJP and regional events.
For this election, the TMC, a brand new entrant, is all charged as much as disenchanted the NPP apple cart. Sensing that the goings is probably not simple for the NPP which faces a chain of corruption fees, the TMC’s central management has centered extra on Meghalaya than Tripura which goes to polls on February 16.
INTERVIEW | 3-corner Meghalaya contest: Conrad says break up in Oppn votes to lend a hand NPP
The TMC, in the meantime, had a backdoor access into Meghalaya. It had no base within the state however in November 2021, twelve Congress MLAs, led by way of Sangma merged themselves with the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration. The improvement had made the TMC the state’s fundamental opposition celebration in a single day. On the other hand, later, 4 MLAs ditched the TMC sooner or later.
Sangma mentioned the rage of MLAs defecting to different events in Meghalaya began in 2018. He mentioned he had hand over the Congress because it was once being managed by way of Assam’s BJP Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. “In the Assam elections, the Congress applicants had been determined by way of Himanta Biswa Sarma. In Meghalaya too, he determined the Congress applicants. That is the Congress. So why must I be within the Congress?” he requested.
TURA: Former Meghalaya Leader Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) stalwart Dr Mukul Sangma mentioned the February 27 elections within the state can be a competition between the TMC and all different events in combination.
Pointing out that the TMC can be a “issue” for different events, he claimed that the folks’s need for a metamorphosis was once “palpable” and “visual” at the floor.
“As we pass to elections, the TMC is on one aspect and the opposite events in combination are at the different aspect. The (six) events within the ruling dispensation have all the time been in combination but if they pass to election hustings, they display their respective identification. On the other hand, the folk of the state are totally conscious about the bottom realities. There’s a need for a metamorphosis,” Sangma claimed whilst speaking to this newspaper at the sidelines of a TMC rally at Rangsakona, 40 km from Tura within the Garo Hills.
He mentioned this is a query of which celebration folks can take the duty of charting the way forward for the state, including that Meghalaya is a sufferer of now not only a loss of governance however the greed of politicians.
Sangma additionally mentioned that the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, which Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma’s Nationwide Folks’s Celebration (NPP) heads, was once going through more than a few fees of corruption and that every one its constituents had been jointly chargeable for it.
Sangma then slammed the federal government over the unlawful mining of coal and the non-appointment of number one faculty lecturers. He mentioned many government-run number one faculties are closed as a result of lecturers weren’t appointed to vacant posts. “The federal government has intentionally not on time the beginning of the criminal coal mining procedure as a result of this permits it to proceed to interact in the type of illegalities which can be happening which has drawn the eye of the judiciary. The size at which it is going on can not occur with out the patronage of government. Coal isn’t a state matter however a central authorities matter. How can the BJP stay silent?” he requested.
The state will witness a multi-party contest. The TMC, NPP, BJP and Congress are contesting all 60 seats. Then, there are a number of smaller regional events.
The Congress had emerged as the one biggest celebration in 2018 by way of successful 21 seats however the NPP shaped a coalition authorities with fortify from the BJP and regional events.
For this election, the TMC, a brand new entrant, is all charged as much as disenchanted the NPP apple cart. Sensing that the goings is probably not simple for the NPP which faces a chain of corruption fees, the TMC’s central management has centered extra on Meghalaya than Tripura which goes to polls on February 16.
INTERVIEW | 3-corner Meghalaya contest: Conrad says break up in Oppn votes to lend a hand NPP
The TMC, in the meantime, had a backdoor access into Meghalaya. It had no base within the state however in November 2021, twelve Congress MLAs, led by way of Sangma merged themselves with the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration. The improvement had made the TMC the state’s fundamental opposition celebration in a single day. On the other hand, later, 4 MLAs ditched the TMC sooner or later.
Sangma mentioned the rage of MLAs defecting to different events in Meghalaya began in 2018. He mentioned he had hand over the Congress because it was once being managed by way of Assam’s BJP Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. “In the Assam elections, the Congress applicants had been determined by way of Himanta Biswa Sarma. In Meghalaya too, he determined the Congress applicants. That is the Congress. So why must I be within the Congress?” he requested.
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Congress has a mountain to climb forward of elections in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura
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GUWAHATI: The approaching elections in 3 states of the Northeast can be a fight for survival for the Congress which as soon as dominated all the area however has now gotten lowered to a shadow of its wonderful previous. The Congress’ slide within the Northeast started after the BJP’s emergence as a powerhouse in 2014.
Simultaneous elections within the 60-member Assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura are anticipated in February.
As apparently now, the Congress isn’t within the race to energy in any of those states. It lacks leaders after lots of them embraced the ruling celebration and different events over a time period.
COLUMN | The King’s Speech: Why the BJP might in finding it tricky to go back to energy in Tripura
The Congress does no longer have a unmarried MLA in Nagaland, only one in Tripura and 5 in Meghalaya.
Alternatively, the 5 in Meghalaya have been suspended previous this 12 months by means of the celebration’s central management for cosying as much as the Conrad Okay Sangma govt.
The Congress had emerged as the only biggest celebration within the 2018 Meghalaya Meeting elections however the Nationwide Other folks’s Celebration (NPP)-led motley alliance shaped the federal government.
In November ultimate 12 months, 12 of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, led by means of former Leader Minister Mukul Sangma, jumped send to put on Trinamool Congress (TMC) colors. Their desertion relegated the grand previous celebration to a extra minor celebration and made the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC the state’s most important Opposition celebration in a single day. TMC had no base within the state previous to that.
Shillong MP H Pala is now Congress’s lone outstanding face within the Christian-majority state. The Congress is not going to, in all probability, have a unmarried MLA by the point it is going to elections because the 5 suspended legislators have roughly ditched the celebration and are more likely to contest the polls at the tickets of alternative political events.
ALSO READ | 4 Meghalaya MLAs sign up for BJP forward of upcoming elections
In Tripura, Sudip Roy Barman is the Congress’ handiest MLA. He had gained the ultimate election at the BJP’s price ticket and was once inducted into the ministry however he resigned from the Meeting and the celebration in February this 12 months after falling out with the then-Leader Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. Later, he gained a by-election, necessitated by means of his resignation.
The Congress had didn’t win a unmarried seat within the 2018 Tripura elections which the BJP swept, decimating the Left.
The Congress had additionally drawn a clean within the Nagaland elections of 2018. The celebration, which had gained many elections underneath former Leader Minister SC Jamir, is now just about misplaced within the state which is dominated by means of a coalition of BJP, Nationalist Democratic Innovative Celebration, and Naga Other folks’s Entrance. All MLAs within the state are from those 3 events.
The elections within the 3 states are across the nook however no longer many of us are speaking concerning the Congress.
Celebration leaders, then again, attempt to post a courageous face. “So what if now we have one MLA? Atal Bihari Vajpayee had simply two MPs however he went directly to transform the High Minister,” Tripura Congress leader Birajit Sinha instructed this newspaper. “There’s a lot happening in Tripura. Other folks will vote us to energy,” he stated expectantly, simply days after seven Congress leaders, led by means of former state leader Pijush Kanti Biswas, joined the TMC in Tripura.
The Congress in Nagaland sounded similarly constructive. “The Congress is the one choice and folks will vote for it. No longer handiest has the Naga political factor remained unresolved, however the state, underneath the existing govt, may be going through bifurcation,” state Congress president Okay Therie stated regarding the call for of an influential tribal group for the introduction of “Frontier Nagaland” state in japanese Nagaland.
READ HERE | ‘Trinamool no longer a Bengali celebration, I paintings for all of India’: Mamata in poll-bound Meghalaya
GUWAHATI: The approaching elections in 3 states of the Northeast can be a fight for survival for the Congress which as soon as dominated all the area however has now gotten lowered to a shadow of its wonderful previous. The Congress’ slide within the Northeast started after the BJP’s emergence as a powerhouse in 2014.
Simultaneous elections within the 60-member Assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura are anticipated in February.
As apparently now, the Congress isn’t within the race to energy in any of those states. It lacks leaders after lots of them embraced the ruling celebration and different events over a time period.
COLUMN | The King’s Speech: Why the BJP might in finding it tricky to go back to energy in Tripura
The Congress does no longer have a unmarried MLA in Nagaland, only one in Tripura and 5 in Meghalaya.
Alternatively, the 5 in Meghalaya have been suspended previous this 12 months by means of the celebration’s central management for cosying as much as the Conrad Okay Sangma govt.
The Congress had emerged as the only biggest celebration within the 2018 Meghalaya Meeting elections however the Nationwide Other folks’s Celebration (NPP)-led motley alliance shaped the federal government.
In November ultimate 12 months, 12 of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, led by means of former Leader Minister Mukul Sangma, jumped send to put on Trinamool Congress (TMC) colors. Their desertion relegated the grand previous celebration to a extra minor celebration and made the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC the state’s most important Opposition celebration in a single day. TMC had no base within the state previous to that.
Shillong MP H Pala is now Congress’s lone outstanding face within the Christian-majority state. The Congress is not going to, in all probability, have a unmarried MLA by the point it is going to elections because the 5 suspended legislators have roughly ditched the celebration and are more likely to contest the polls at the tickets of alternative political events.
ALSO READ | 4 Meghalaya MLAs sign up for BJP forward of upcoming elections
In Tripura, Sudip Roy Barman is the Congress’ handiest MLA. He had gained the ultimate election at the BJP’s price ticket and was once inducted into the ministry however he resigned from the Meeting and the celebration in February this 12 months after falling out with the then-Leader Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. Later, he gained a by-election, necessitated by means of his resignation.
The Congress had didn’t win a unmarried seat within the 2018 Tripura elections which the BJP swept, decimating the Left.
The Congress had additionally drawn a clean within the Nagaland elections of 2018. The celebration, which had gained many elections underneath former Leader Minister SC Jamir, is now just about misplaced within the state which is dominated by means of a coalition of BJP, Nationalist Democratic Innovative Celebration, and Naga Other folks’s Entrance. All MLAs within the state are from those 3 events.
The elections within the 3 states are across the nook however no longer many of us are speaking concerning the Congress.
Celebration leaders, then again, attempt to post a courageous face. “So what if now we have one MLA? Atal Bihari Vajpayee had simply two MPs however he went directly to transform the High Minister,” Tripura Congress leader Birajit Sinha instructed this newspaper. “There’s a lot happening in Tripura. Other folks will vote us to energy,” he stated expectantly, simply days after seven Congress leaders, led by means of former state leader Pijush Kanti Biswas, joined the TMC in Tripura.
The Congress in Nagaland sounded similarly constructive. “The Congress is the one choice and folks will vote for it. No longer handiest has the Naga political factor remained unresolved, however the state, underneath the existing govt, may be going through bifurcation,” state Congress president Okay Therie stated regarding the call for of an influential tribal group for the introduction of “Frontier Nagaland” state in japanese Nagaland.
READ HERE | ‘Trinamool no longer a Bengali celebration, I paintings for all of India’: Mamata in poll-bound Meghalaya
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4 Meghalaya MLAs sign up for BJP forward of upcoming elections
By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: 4 Meghalaya MLAs, together with two from the state’s ruling Nationwide Other folks’s Birthday celebration, joined the BJP on Wednesday because the birthday celebration seems to be to increase its footprints within the north-eastern area forward of meeting polls within the state.
Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who’s the birthday celebration’s pointsman for the area, stated the becoming a member of of the 4 “skilled and revered” political figures will mark a “new starting” for the BJP within the state, the place it would win best two seats within the 60 member-assembly within the 2018 polls.
Although the state’s ruling NPP has been a member of the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Birthday celebration, their members of the family had been some distance from easy.
The BJP’s determination to induct two of its MLAs, Benedict Marak and Ferlin Sangma, into its fold underscores its decided push to nook the NPP and emerge as a robust pressure within the state forward of the polls more likely to be held in February.
The 2 different MLAs who joined the birthday celebration at its headquarters listed below are Samuel M Sangma, an unbiased, and Himalaya Muktan Shangpliang, who’s from the Trinamool Congress. This can be a large spice up to the birthday celebration, Sarma stated.
ALSO READ | ‘Trinamool now not a Bengali birthday celebration, I paintings for all of India’: Mamata in poll-bound Meghalaya
The Assam leader minister informed newshounds that below the Narendra Modi executive, the north-east, which has 8 states, has passed through super alternate since 2014 and each and every sector has improved.
“The north-east has been mainstreamed totally and 3 BJP state governments (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur) had been re-elected to energy, highlighting the birthday celebration’s deal with has grow to be everlasting within the area,” he stated, expressing self assurance that the BJP will rating “impressive wins” within the upcoming polls in Tripura and Nagaland, but even so Meghalaya.
All of the 4 MLAs met with BJP president J P Nadda later.
“I welcome Shri Ferlin Sangma, Samuel Sangma, Benedic Marak and HM Shangpliang into the @BJP4India. I’m certain all of you’re blessed with immense functions that may very much get advantages our birthday celebration & lend a hand us to fulfil Modi Ji’s undertaking of ‘Antyodaya’. My highest needs to you all,” Nadda tweeted.
Sambit Patra, who oversees the BJP’s organisational affairs for the area, stated the north-east will grow to be a brand new engine of enlargement for the rustic below Modi.
BJP nationwide secretary Rituraj Sinha stated Meghalaya is in a position to sign up for Modi’s construction time table.
Shangpliang stated the state wanted a transformation and the BJP would ship it.
“This can be a nice birthday celebration which has influenced all folks as individuals are inspired with its construction paintings,” he stated.
NEW DELHI: 4 Meghalaya MLAs, together with two from the state’s ruling Nationwide Other folks’s Birthday celebration, joined the BJP on Wednesday because the birthday celebration seems to be to increase its footprints within the north-eastern area forward of meeting polls within the state.
Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who’s the birthday celebration’s pointsman for the area, stated the becoming a member of of the 4 “skilled and revered” political figures will mark a “new starting” for the BJP within the state, the place it would win best two seats within the 60 member-assembly within the 2018 polls.
Although the state’s ruling NPP has been a member of the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Birthday celebration, their members of the family had been some distance from easy.
The BJP’s determination to induct two of its MLAs, Benedict Marak and Ferlin Sangma, into its fold underscores its decided push to nook the NPP and emerge as a robust pressure within the state forward of the polls more likely to be held in February.
The 2 different MLAs who joined the birthday celebration at its headquarters listed below are Samuel M Sangma, an unbiased, and Himalaya Muktan Shangpliang, who’s from the Trinamool Congress. This can be a large spice up to the birthday celebration, Sarma stated.
ALSO READ | ‘Trinamool now not a Bengali birthday celebration, I paintings for all of India’: Mamata in poll-bound Meghalaya
The Assam leader minister informed newshounds that below the Narendra Modi executive, the north-east, which has 8 states, has passed through super alternate since 2014 and each and every sector has improved.
“The north-east has been mainstreamed totally and 3 BJP state governments (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur) had been re-elected to energy, highlighting the birthday celebration’s deal with has grow to be everlasting within the area,” he stated, expressing self assurance that the BJP will rating “impressive wins” within the upcoming polls in Tripura and Nagaland, but even so Meghalaya.
All of the 4 MLAs met with BJP president J P Nadda later.
“I welcome Shri Ferlin Sangma, Samuel Sangma, Benedic Marak and HM Shangpliang into the @BJP4India. I’m certain all of you’re blessed with immense functions that may very much get advantages our birthday celebration & lend a hand us to fulfil Modi Ji’s undertaking of ‘Antyodaya’. My highest needs to you all,” Nadda tweeted.
Sambit Patra, who oversees the BJP’s organisational affairs for the area, stated the north-east will grow to be a brand new engine of enlargement for the rustic below Modi.
BJP nationwide secretary Rituraj Sinha stated Meghalaya is in a position to sign up for Modi’s construction time table.
Shangpliang stated the state wanted a transformation and the BJP would ship it.
“This can be a nice birthday celebration which has influenced all folks as individuals are inspired with its construction paintings,” he stated.
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TMC names Bengal Minister Manas Bhunia as its Meghalaya in-charge, any other senior chief to seem after Tripura unit
Through PTI
KOLKATA: The TMC, which is attempting to cement its base within the northeast, on Monday tasked 3 of its senior leaders with the duty of managing the birthday celebration’s affairs in two states.
In a observation, the birthday celebration stated that MLA and senior cupboard minister Manas Bhunia has been appointed because the in-charge of its Meghalaya unit with quick impact.
TMC-controlled Bidhannagar Municipal Company chairman Sabyasachi Dutta used to be named the co-in fee of the Meghalaya unit.
Dutta, who had converted to the BJP from the TMC in 2019, rejoined the Mamata Banerjee-led camp after the 2021 meeting elections.
Any other state-level chief and previous minister Rajib Banerjee, who had unsuccessfully contested the closing meeting polls on a BJP price tag and returned to the TMC after the birthday celebration’s thumping victory, has been named because the state in-charge of TMC Tripura unit, the observation added.
In an enormous jolt to the opposition Congress in Meghalaya, 12 of its 17 MLAs, led by way of former leader minister Mukul Sangma, joined the TMC closing November.
The birthday celebration had additionally been seeking to achieve foothold in Goa, the place elections have been held closing month, and the effects could be introduced on March 10.
A number of senior Congress leaders, together with former leader minister Luizinho Faleiro, joined the TMC within the western state forward of the meeting polls there.