Shillong, Nov 17: The countdown to allocation of Congress party tickets to the aspirants who had applied to contest the 2013 February Assembly election in Meghalaya will begin with the arrival of the Congress central observers for Meghalaya Dhaniram Shandil and Sanjay Bapana in Shillong Tuesday.
Shandil who also heads the Congress Coordination Committee will be huddle in a meeting with other members of the committee on Tuesday to discuss the general issue of the party. On Tuesday, the Pradesh Congress Election Committee headed by the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president DD Lapang will be sitting to scrutinize the applications from aspirants wanting to contest the forthcoming assembly elections from the party.
As of now there are twenty-eight Congress legislators in a 60-member Meghalaya Assembly. According to the MPCC working president and former Meghalaya deputy chief minister Deborah Marak normally all the sitting legislators will be getting the party tickets. She said, “Sitting legislators are normally given the party tickets, so they should not have any problem in getting the tickets.”
Marak informed that the two Congress observers will leave Meghalaya till October 23.
The two Congress leaders will be taking the recommendation of the CEC headed by Lapang and submit it to the Congress high command. Marak, however, said that she has no inkling as to when the Congress candidates will be announced. She said, “ Only the high commands know when the list of candidates will be released.”
The two Congress leaders will take the names approved by the CEC to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and accordingly seek her approval before releasing the names.- By Our Reporter
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