SHILLONG:
Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has told audiences across his constituency that voters of Tura must take advantage of the NPP wave and support his candidature because the ground situation is favouring his party to such an extent that even opposition MLAs have realised the futility of staying behind and have now joined to contest on NPP tickets.
“Opposition MLAs have seen the public mood is strongly in our favour, otherwise why would those legislators from the Trinamool and the Congress besides regional parties come and join us?” questioned the chief minister.
“Jimmy D Sangma and Marthon J Sangma from Trinamool Congress, Ampareen Lyngdoh, Mohendro Rapsang and Kimfa Marbaniang from Congress, Hamletson Dohling, Samlin Malngiang and others have joined us because they know it is going to be a stable NPP government with a clear majority,” said Conrad Sangma and added that opposition parties would be looking at single seats when votes get counted on March 2.
“Voters of Tura are not going to vote for Conrad Sangma alone but the chief minister of the state and your votes will have a ripple effect across the state and benefit others. Look at Rongjeng, your vote for me five years ago helped me to work together for the people of Rongjeng to see their dream of a civil sub division come true. Your vote is going to benefit many others, ” assured the chief minister to rapturous applause from voters in Tura bazar during Sunday evening’s campaign in the town, an NPP statement said.
Conrad did not miss out on the importance of Tura town that was deprived of development for many years which he turned around within five years tackling head on the problem of water scarcity, street lighting, locality roads and sporting arenas for the youth to utilize.
“We brought in visible development for Tura through the Smart Town project and the Tura Town Beautification project. Over 250 internal locality roads are undergoing construction, close to 80 percent of the population now have access to piped water connection, whereas five years back, many localities in Tura witnessed this problem.
There is a new push for development in tura
And my promise to the citizens of Tura is to continue the work to further the lives of our people,” the chief minister said.