Meghalaya CM asks Cong to stop blaming other parties for poaching

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaOctober 11, 2021

Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday asked the opposition Congress to stop blaming other political parties for poaching its leaders.

“If you are not able to keep your flock together, if you are not able to satisfy or address the concerns of your people, please don’t blame other political parties,” Sangma told reporters while reacting to the Congress for accusing the NPP of poaching its leaders.

This came after senior member and sitting Mawphlang MDC Lamphrang Blah had quit the Congress and joined the NPP for contesting the upcoming bye election to the Mawphlang Assembly seat, slated for October 30.

“You are not able to keep your people together, it is not our fault. If people want to join other political parties, they are free to join, this is democracy…there is no question of poaching, this is politics,” the Chief Minister said.  

He further claimed that today people have seen that in the future and in the current that only the NPP will be able to work and that’s why they have decided to join with the NPP.

“I think maybe the Congress party has no other way to look at it or justify that’s why they are blaming us for poaching, it is important that they should look upon themselves and figure out that there is some problem maybe within the organization,” he added.

Asked if Congress MLAs have also approached the NPP, the Chief Minister however said “those are matters not to be discussed in this kind of a platform. When the right time comes we will discuss.”