SHILLONG, MAR 10: Former Lok Sabha Speaker and National People’s Party (NPP) national president Purno Agitok Sangma will contest the Tura Lok Sabha seat slated for April 9. The veteran politician will be pitted against the Congress political greenhorn Darly William Cheran Momin, grandson of the first Meghalaya chief minister (L) capt WA Sangma.
NPP spokesman and legislator James K Sangma, said that the party has decided to field its national president as its candidate for the Tura Lok Sabha seat.
The Tura Lok Sabha seat is presently represented by Agatha K Sangma, who was elected on an NCP ticket. But Agatha, who remained in the NCP even after Purno A Sangma- who is her father quit NCP to form NPP- has also resigned from the NCP.
Agatha will not be contesting the Lok Sabha polls making way for her father who had represented Tura since 1977 only to make way for her during the last parliamentary elections.
Sangma senior’s name was recommended by the NPP Meghalaya Unit which the Central Election Committee (CEC) decided to approved.
In 2012, Purno A Sangma resigned from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Tura assembly seat to contest the Presidential election but was defeated by Congress nominee Pranab Mukherjee.
It was on January 2013, Sangma launched the NPP at the national level. The NPP managed to get only two seats in the 60 member Meghalaya Legislative assembly last year.
Agatha Sangma said that the decision not to contest was taken because of the deteriorating law and order situation prevailing in the state and the lack of governance both at the regional and national level.
According to Agatha the need of the hour is that PA Sangma should come back into active politics and give his valuable contribution in building up the nation. – By Our Reporter
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