Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma to visit Silchar tomorrow; will campaign for Nazia Yasmin 

National People’s Party supremo and chief minister of Meghalaya Conrad Sangma will visit Silchar tomorrow to campaign for party’s candidate contesting from Silchar, Nazia Yasmin Mazumder. 

Speaking to Barak Bulletin, Nazia Yasmin said, “Our party chief Conrad Sangma will be in Silchar tomorrow. He will attend a rally Babur Bazar in Borkhola.”

She has been actively campaigning since the day her candidature was announced. The other day she raised questions on the issue of transportation and communication. She said politicians should pay some attention to the other side of Barak river which is in deep trouble because of erosion. “Why is the Badri bridge no built yet?” she questioned. She also questioned the “Vote for Modi campaigning from BJP” She said, “In a parliamentary form of democracy, people vote for their local leader based on the local issues. In India we do not elect a presidential candidate who will have supreme power like the USA. Ours is a system where checks and balances are enshrined by the constitution. To destroy this whole system by asking everyone to vote for Modi is another attempt to undermine the constitutional framework, like many other institutions that have already been destroyed.”

She also took a jibe at Silchar MP and Congress candidate Sushmita Dev and said people of Silchar must not vote for Sushmita Dev. “The way that Congress dealt with minority communities was always questionable. If they had tried to uplift these communities, considering them as fellow Indian citizens and not just as a vote bank, the minority community would not have been in this bad shape after 72 years of India’s Independence,” she asserted.

Adding, “Congress always wanted us to remain poor and support them, while BJP wants us to give up our way of life and freedom of speech at the cost of development. Given a choice, I would rather wait for development than risking my way of life and freedom of speech.”

In the local political scenario she said, “Sushmita has never valued the various communities and the indigenous people of Cachar. Just look at her track record of supporting any cause that pertains to us, be it encouraging local leaders, fighting for the indigenous people of Cachar or development of our region. Her actions regarding such issues are non-existent and abysmal. It is high time that we raise our voices and establish our right.”