Cong predicts formation of a non-BJP govt at the Centre

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMay 12, 2019

SHILLONG: Congress leader and former chief minister Mukul Sangma has predicted a hung parliament and that the secular forces will be forming the new government at the Centre.

The results of the Lok Sabha elections held in seven phases across the country will be declared on May 23.

Speaking to journalists here on Sunday, Sangma said, “Given the inputs that we have been getting there will be a hung parliament but consolidation of the whole secular formation will be visible during this election. You will have a government formed by all the secular forces coming together and lead the nation.”

He added, “We will see a much more coherent society in the days to come and the sense of insecurity and sense of unpredictability that existed in the preceding five years will be the thing of the past.”

Asked, Sangma, who is also a candidate from the Tura parliamentary seat, said after May 23, there will be a conscious decision taken by all the leaders on who will be the new Prime Minister of the country.

“All the leaders will be coming together I am sure they will demonstrate their respective wisdom  in looking as to what should be the future course keeping in mind the larger good and interest of the nation, we leave it to them.”

The Congress leader said the party leadership has been very clear that our intention is not to look at the ‘position of power’ but to look at a future which is not a continuity of the last five years.

Meanwhile, Sangma further expressed confidence that the Congress will win both the Shillong and Tura seats in Meghalaya.

Thanking the people of the state for coming out to exercise their franchise during the Lok Sabha polls, he however expressed that he would have been happier if the poll percentage was higher in areas falling under the Shillong parliamentary constituency.

The former chief minister while pointing out that in some areas the voter turnout was below 50 per cent said people must understand that we are equally responsible for the future of the nation.

“One cannot expect to bunk voting in every election and point finger at the people who are at the helm of affairs of governance that is not fair,” he said.