SHILLONG, SEPT 19: Ruling National People’s Party (NPP) leader and deputy chief minister Prestone Tynsong on Tuesday said his party would definitely try to get the former Congress veteran leader DD Lapang joining its fold.
Responding to a query on whether the NPP is planning to bring the leader into the party, Tynsong said, “Yes why not at his (Lapang) stature. Are you trying to say we are fools by not approaching him? We have to but ultimately the final decision is his whether he will come to us or go to other political parties. The choice is his.”
The former five-time chief minister, who recently quit the Congress as a mark of protest against its alleged policy of phasing out senior and elderly people, is however yet to decide on which party he is going to be associated.
Lapang, who was a former Congress chief, had also turned down the request of the party leaders to withdraw his resignation by saying that he is a man of his words.
Asked, Tynsong, also a former Congress leader, said that there is something wrong somewhere otherwise Lapang at his stature why should he take such an extreme step to resign from his party.
“He is a very senior most political leader not only in Meghalaya but in the North East region and is also one of the senior most even in India from the Congress party, so you understand,” he said.
On whether Lapang’s resignation was a big blow to the Congress, the deputy chief minister however said, “Since I have already resigned from the Congress last year, now I have nothing to say about the party whether they are losing or gaining, I don’t know you ask them.”
Tynsong recalled that when he was in the Congress he had insisted the party’s high command to take a decision as corrective measures have to be there but nothing happen.
“But now I am not with the Congress I can no longer advise them,” he said while stating that his decision to leave the Congress was a positive one as it was for the interest of the state and the people.
By Our Reporter
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