UDP announces 2nd list of candidates, says give more MLAs for better delivery
The United Democratic Party (UDP) on Monday announced its second lists of two candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.
The names of former South Tura legislator John Leslee K Sangma and Dr Pilne Sangma from North Tura were finalized by the state election committee (SEC).
The two candidates were felicitated by the UDP president and Assembly Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh.
Addressing a short meeting, Lyngdoh informed that the party has so far declared a total of 34 candidates for the upcoming elections.
Stating that the people of the state are looking up to the UDP as the biggest regional party, Lyngdoh said that the party is committed and will try its best to deliver the expectations of the people if given the mandate in the forthcoming elections.
Lyngdoh said that his party is working very hard to reach out to every nook and corner of the state to create awareness among the electorate to ensure they make no mistakes and be with the UDP in this upcoming election.
He said that the UDP is trying to fill up candidates from all 60 seats. “We will take a call on the matter after doing the ground assessment on each and every candidate.”
Lyngdoh said he was surprised at the decision of the National People’s Party (NPP) not to field a candidate against him from the Mairang constituency.
“I don’t know but I was surprised to see they (NPP) openly announced that they are going to put up a candidate from there. I don’t know what the reason is. The best thing is for you to ask them,” he said.
He said that the UDP is fighting the 2023 polls on its own even as he expressed confidence that the party will win more than 30 seats.
Whether the party is ready to work with the opposition All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) post elections, Lyngdoh said, “the choice will come only when the time comes.”
Meanwhile, the UDP chief said that if people are not happy with the NPP-led MDA government, they should consider giving more MLAs to the UDP.
“Give us more MLAs, we will deliver much better,” he said.
Lyngdoh also said it is wrong if the NPP wants to play as a political party in the government events or programmes.
“We fought elections, everybody is trying to do this but I don’t see that is going to benefit anyone as at the end of the day people will decide. If this kind of benefit coming before the elections means people should understand and realize that this is not at all the real kind of schemes that people are supposed to receive so people should be wise enough to see and look into all these aspects,” he said.
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