Before I draw my charted path, I am still examining pros & cons: Mukul

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMarch 15, 2025

Leader of Opposition and TMC leader Mukul Sangma is still examining the pros and cons before charted a better path in his political career.

“Before I draw my charted path I am still examining. I am still trying to look at all the pros and cons and the pros and cons of being able to do best, the pros and cons from the perspective of what can enable me to be able to contribute the maximum in the days ahead and the years ahead,” Sangma said while responding to a query on what will be his next move following speculations of him ready to join other political parties.

On November 25, 2021, Mukul along with 11 other Congress MLAs merged with the All India Trinamool Congress (or TMC). However, the TMC had faced an acceptability issue in the 2023 Assembly polls when it could win only four seats from Garo Hills region and one from Khasi Hills region.

The former chief minister emphasized the need to introspect and decide what is best after looking at the charted path.

Talking from his own experiences, Mukul said he has seen that sometimes, political leader are weakened when they are affiliated to a national party.

“If you belong to one political party, your decisions will be guided also by a certain political party; it is not always your own individual decision. Therefore, for a state like my Meghalaya where we need to really understand the challenges associated with protecting the interest of our people, I have seen that sometimes we are weakened when we are affiliated to the National Party,” he stated adding “Yes, I am speaking from my past experiences. I am not creating a situation where you should presume or assume because the diversity of this country itself is itself challenging for any policy maker in Delhi to understand the real complexity associated with the problems of diverse zones, diverse areas and people belonging to diversity. Therefore, it has always been difficult for us to really somehow overcome the real challenge of making people in Delhi understand our problem.”

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He further explained his points saying, “I was referring to the Sixth Schedule that when the Constitution was adopted that time there was the collective engagement and exhaustive long drawn discussion to ultimately give shape to this constitution of India as it was adopted in 1950. But subsequent to that you have seen how this provision of the constitution has been amended to an extent, though not so alarming but have been amended without even the knowledge of the people who are affected by such amendment. Therefore, it is an example that I am sharing that sometimes when you are in a big party and you represent a small state you become, though you would like to reason, you cannot reason from a position of strength.”

Stating that his statement is not to condemn any political party or any political leader, Mukul said,”I am telling what is the experience that I have gone through and based on my own this part of comprehension which has enable me to share this whatever is now some kind of based on all this experiences is, which I have gone through and how I have understood the nuances of the politics.”