Shillong, June 21: The state Congress president Vincent Pala said the party is ready to support the NPP-led MDA-2 minus the BJP.
“We will be very happy if we can manage to dictate to the NPP to sever its ties with the BJP. Minus the BJP, we are ready to support and work together with the NPP in the state, there is no doubt about it,” Pala told reporters at the party office here on Wednesday.
His response is after the Congress extended support to NPP to lead the KHADC following the collapse of the UDP-led alliance.
On the action taken against former CLP leader Ampareen Lyngdoh and four other former MLAs of the party for supporting the NPP-led MDA government ahead of the 2023 polls, Pala said the case of the five MLAs is different from KHADC.
“We got the approval of the Central party leadership before joining the Council but the five former MLAs have gone on their own to support the MDA government. In fact even at that point of time, we don’t have a problem of working with the NPP but because the BJP was there, we are clear that we cannot work with the BJP”, the Shillong MP said.
Pala said there is no BJP in the KHADC and the CEM was elected from the NPP and the deputy CEM will be from the Congress in the KHADC.
Had the BJP been there in the KHADC, the Congress would never be ready to lend support to the NPP and the Congress is very clear that the party is ready to work with anybody except the BJP.
“So whatever decision we are taking it will be for the interest of the Council,” he said.
However, the MPCC president said his party will remain in the Opposition bench in the Assembly and will continue to take up various issues confronting the state and its people.
