AITC would have won Gambegre seat: Mukul

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaDecember 4, 2024

AITC leader and former chief minister Mukul Sangma on Wednesday claimed that if was not a bye election, his party would have won the Gambegre seat.

“If this was not a bye election, we would have won the seat,” Sangma told reporters.

AITC candidate Sadhiarani Sangma was defeated by Chief Minister’s wife Dr Mehtab Chandee A Sangma in the recent concluded Gambegre bye election.

Sadhiarani could managed to get only 8084 votes.

Asked, Sangma said, “It is not that what has gone wrong. You should have tried to find out how it has happened. I leave this question to you only. Even before the run up also you saw distribution of CGI sheets so you know what exactly has happened but it would be better if you can still have a kind of postmortem, you will have a better insight of what actually happened and therefore, you will know how in format of democracy, how misuse and abuse of power including other factors can actually influence the outcome of any election.”

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“These are issues, which gives us a kind of an insight into the whole challenges associated with the democracy that we are having keeping in mind the way the political scenario is unfolding over the years.

What you see in the past 20 years back and what you see today, the dynamics of electoral politics is definitely influence by various other manners in which political parties have adopted their respective strategies. Therefore, these are also factors and I have also taken cognizance of those factors so we know what to do,” he stated.