The National People’s Party (NPP) will put up over 54 candidates for the upcoming 2023 assembly elections and score an absolute majority to form the government.
“We are fighting in 54 seats; it should be easy for us to get the majority,” he said, adding, “We are targeting an absolute majority, but let the results come, then we will see what happens,” NPP State president Wanwei Roy Kharlukhi told reporters today.
He claimed that by January next year, eight MLAs will be joining the NPP even though he refuses to disclose their names. He also said three will not get the party ticket.
Reacting to the statement made by opposition TMC leader, Dr Mukul Sangma that the NPP will not get more than six seats in Garo Hills, Kharlukhi justified that in 2018 the congress won 20 seats as Congressmen and not as TMC and so the TMC are yet to be tested by the people of Garo Hills.
“I hope the leader of the opposition knows the calculation or else he may also lose his seat”, he added.
On allegations that the NPP-led MDA are taking credits of projects started by the previous government, he said, “The road from Tura to Shillong was also started by late PA Sangma but claimed by Mukul Sangma when he came to power.”
The NPP president said the party will come up with a manifesto detailing on what they have done and achieved. “We will come up with things of what we have done during our term, because you can dream… but if someone else implements your dream then it is not your dream,” he stated.
He claimed that this is the first time that the NPP was voted to power so it should tell the people what it has done and not just keep on promising what it will do like other parties.
