The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has continued its attack on former member Himalaya Shangpliang, with the state unit’s farmers’ wing (Kisan Morcha) taking up the cudgel today.
Kisan Morcha state president Justice Syiem defended BJP state president Ernest Mawrie from Shangpliang’s charge of favouritism, describing this as “totally baseless, full of falsehood and bias”.
In the last six years, Shangpliang has been a member of four different political parties (Congress, Trinamool Congress, BJP and now National People’s Party, which he will formally join on Wednesday).
“In his nine months journey in our party and six-year political career he has not even understood that a political worker does voluntary work and a party assigns responsibility to any of its cadre on the basis of his available time skills and experience,” Syiem said.
Shangpliang only joined the BJP in November last year but was still given full logistical support to win the state election held at the end of February this year, Syiem added. In any event, Shangpliang failed to hold on to the Mawsynram seat but was still compensated by the NPP-led government with an advisory role.
Furthermore, Syiem claimed that he had reached out to Shangpliang several times to propose names for Kisan Morcha organisational responsibilities in the state and to also constitute a Kisan Morcha mandal in Mawsynram but “on all occasions he told to me that he is busy with government assignments and he will get back to me but in reality he never delivered anything to the party in his nine months’ journey in the BJP.”
