Congress ‘lost its sense of direction’: Ex Meghalaya minister quits before polls

As Meghalaya warms up for the meeting elections, due early subsequent year, Congress chief and previous country minister Dr. Ampareen Lyngdoh has end the grand vintage birthday birthday celebration. Along with one greater MLA, Lyngdoh is about to enroll in the ruling NPP (National People’s Party), humans acquainted with the problem said. “I actually have tendered my formal resignation from @INCIndia (sic),” the chief wrote on Twitter on Monday morning, along side a duplicate of the letter, tagging Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The NPP is an best friend of the BJP.

In the letter, Dr. Lyngdoh mentioned that she has been “a foot soldier of the Congress for maximum a part of my life”. “However, current trends withinside the birthday birthday celebration have led me to accept as true with that it has misplaced its experience of direction. There has been a urgent want for the birthday birthday celebration and the management to mirror on this. Sincere and sincere tries to guide such self-introspection I accept as true with have failed,” the letter reads.

The Congress has “misplaced contact with the humans of Meghalaya”, her letter in addition reads, adding, “… and I not accept as true with it’s far the fine platform for me to serve them.”

Meghalaya is about to vote early subsequent year. Tripura is some other northeastern country wherein meeting elections are probably to be held through March. The trendy trends come an afternoon after the BJP sounded the ballot bugle withinside the states with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vist.

Last month, 3 incumbent MLAs in Meghalaya – from the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) and one from the competition All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) – had resigned to enroll in the BJP. The NPP’s Benedict Marak (Raksamgre) and Fairlene Sangma (Selsella), and Trinamool Congress legislator Himalaya Muktan Shangpliang (Mawsynram) had end their parties. “All 3 folks are making plans to enroll in the BJP very quickly with the goal of bringing improvement to the country,” Shangpliang had tweeted on the time.

“We joined the BJP due to the fact we examine Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a massive position model. PM Modi can extrade matters. We sense and we accept as true with that matters will extrade for Meghalaya,” HT had quoted him as pronouncing in a report.

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