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Ex-UDP MLA Embhahlang Syiemlieh joins NPP, blasts former party

He resigned from the party last month after he was denied the party ticket for the 2023 Assembly polls.

Staff Reporter

SHILLONG:

Former Mawlai legislator Embhahlang Syiemlieh joined the National People’s Party (NPP) on September 3 along with hundreds of his supporters.

Syiemlieh, who won on a United Democratic Party (UDP) ticket in 2013, lost to suspended Congress MLA PT Sawkmie in the 2018 Assembly election.

He resigned from the party last month after he was denied the party ticket for the 2023 Assembly polls.

He was welcomed into the party fold by Deputy Chief Minister and NPP national vice-president Prestone Tynsong.

Speaking at the function to welcome him held at the Mawlai Mawdatbaki, Indoor Sports Hall, Syiemlieh hit out at the UDP.

According to him, the regional party does not have the same values, which it had during the days of EK Mawlong and Dr Donkupar Roy.

“I joined the UDP because of visionaries like them,” the former Mawlai MLA said.

According to him, his love for regional parties, especially the UDP, was to such an extent that he even forgot about himself but at the end of the day he was sidelined by the same party.

Further hitting out at the UDP, Syiemlieh said that although the party was an ally of the NPP and was part of the decision to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in the end behind the backs they criticised the outcome of the border talks with Assam.

“When there are brickbats for the government they sideline the NPP and when it is applauded they want a share of the limelight,” Syiemlieh said.

“They are not capable of leading the state. UDP has three ministers in the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance,” he said.

The former Mawlai legislator said that as a politician he wants to win elections but had with open arms invited the incumbent MLA (Process T Sawkmie) to join the UDP and sacrificed his wishes.

“But when the Congress members joined the UDP they began to sideline us. They refused to mutually respect us and when we took the matter to the party leadership they turned a deaf ear. But when we resigned from the UDP and were on the verge of joining the NPP they tried to convince us to return,” Syiemlieh said.

Meanwhile, Tynsong in his speech criticised the UDP leadership for leaving their former legislator in the cold after suspended Congress legislator Process T Sawkmie expressed his willingness to join the party.

“It is better to have an enemy than a friend who will back stab you,” the deputy chief minister said.

He said that sidelining Syiemlieh by the UDP was not an appropriate behaviour since Sawkmie has not even officially joined the regional party.

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