SHILLONG, JAN 24: Meghalaya Rajya Sabha MP Wansuk Syiem will file her nomination papers on Monday seeking reelection to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from the state. The Congress party has approved her name for seeking reelection to the Upper House from the Meghalaya.
Syiem told this website, “I will file the nomination papers on Monday with the Assembly secretary.” On Friday she was seen busy putting in place her affidavits that she has to submit during filing of nomination papers.
On April last year, Syiem became the first woman Rajya Sabha MP from the state of Meghalaya to be elected in the bye-election to the Upper House. The lone seat from the state to the Upper House fell vacant as the then Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Thomas A Sangma resigned to contest the February 23 assembly polls from North Tura on a National People’s Party (NPP) ticket. He, however, lost the election.
Wansuk, 55, has been a senior Congress party member for over three decades and had held various important party posts in the MPCC as well as the AICC. She was a two-time member of the National Commission for Women (NCW).
Speaking to this reporter Syiem informed that during the 10-month tenure as the member of the Upper House, she has been able to persuade the Union Ministry of External Affairs to set up a passport office in Shillong. She said, “The union ministry of external affairs has sanctioned Rs 30 lakhs and chief minister Mukul Sangma has informed me about the sanction in a letter to me.”
Syiem said that she had also taken up with the BSNL the connectivity problem in Meghalaya and the need to increase the bandwidth so that the state has better connectivity. Saying that she will function in tandem with the state government and take-up issue of development of the state with the union government if she is reelected, she informed that she will keep in constant touch with the state chief minister on issues that she needs to pursue with the union government.- By Our Reporter
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