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Shillong, Nov 26 (IANS): Meghalaya opposition leader Mukul Sangma, who along with 11 Congress MLAs joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday night, said on Thursday that the Congress has failed as an effective opposition in the country and the TMC would be a pan-India viable alternative opposition party.
Reliable sources said that political strategist Prashant Kishor and his team members, who have been camping in Shillong for the past two months, apparently engineered the defections.
Two West Bengal ministers and senior Trinamool leaders, Moloy Ghatak and Manas Bhunia, reached here on Thursday afternoon and held a meeting with the MLAs led by Sangma.
Ghatak and Bhunia greeted the newcomers and handed over TMC flags to Sangma and others at a simple ceremony.
State Congress President and Lok Sabha Member Vincent H. Pala said in Shillong that the desertion of the 12 MLAs is not a setback for the party, it is a new challenge and the Congress leaders know how to face the challenge.
Sangma, a former Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2010-2018), said that their potential was not exploited fully by the Congress and they were unable to be an effective opposition party in Meghalaya. "To be an effective opposition party and to serve the people as per their wi
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Mukul scared of me, says 'jilted' Saleng
An aggrieved Saleng, who is likely to resign from the ministry and the party in a couple of days, blamed the chief minister of "playing politics", leading to his not being given a ticket to contest the ensuing elections on February 23.
"I was a performing minister; you can ask any my officers. Mukul is probably scared that I will shine in Congress that is the reason he hasn't offered me a ticket," he alleged, while talking to mediapersons.
"Mukul wants to be at the top of the party in Garo Hills and he does not want anybody to do better than him," Saleng maintained, adding he would be resigning from the party and the government before January 25.
He informed that since the Block Congress Committee and Pradesh Congress Committee have been dissolved in his constituency, he is no longer a member of Congress and by putting in his papers this would become official.
Asked whether he would be joining the United Demo