Shillong, Jan 19: All India Congress Committee (AICC) media coordinator Bobbeeta Sharma said the BJP will swallow up the National People’s Party (NPP) and other regional parties in the state.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Sharma said the BJP always piggy rides on the regional parties and then they swallow up the regional parties.
“They have no candidates in Assam but they rode on the back of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and then they tried to make inroads into the political scene of the state of Assam. Similarly, they will do the same here. When you come from Guwahati you see so many posters of the BJP as if Meghalaya is a BJP state. This is not a BJP state as they have only two MLAs but NPP will soon be swallowed by the BJP, that is the message they are giving and that is why they are not pulling out of the MDA government as they have their own interest in hand,” Sharma said.
She said the BJP state president Ernest Mawrie had made a press statement calling the NPP-led MDA government the most corrupt government.
“So you can imagine that if an ally himself says that his government is corrupt but at the same time with all due respect to Ernest Mawrie he very earnestly had the press meet but he did not take any action with all earnestness – so you can imagine his good intention in saying that. On one hand you see that the BJP talks about the NPP being corrupt but they don’t do anything about it,” she said.
Sharma said the Congress never tried to swallow any regional parties.
The AICC leader said, “The Congress has given them the space to grow as it is very important to have regional parties and regional aspirations but the BJP wants only their party to win as they don’t want regionalism at all.”
Sharma pointed that the BJP has already started buying NPP MLAs. “NPP people are joining the BJP. They have already started doing that and it is not very long before they will end like AGP in Assam,” she added.
Another AICC coordinator Mathew Antony, said the BJP has their vested interest in staying in the government. “…when you are a participant there you are an equal partner there so you have your interest, you have your returns that are coming in, the looting is shared so that is why they are staying.”
He pointed that the BJP has crippled the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu.
“You look at the antecedents of the people, we don’t have to speak they speak for themselves how they destroy democracy by practices, for them it is only absolute power with lies and fake promises,” Antony said.
He said whenever the BJP tied up with the regional parties, they have destroyed them so why will NPP not fear the BJP in the nearby future.
