The Voice of the People Party (VPP) has called the remarks made by KHADC CEM, Pyniaid Sing Syiem as “childish and without value”.
Syiem recently claimed that the VPP is being supported by the West Bengal-based Trinamool Congress and that it is not a party from the Khasi region. He said its symbol ‘prah’ (winnower) is not of the Khasi but a prah from West Bengal.
“This only show that he (Pyniaid) does not even understand or read politics and it will be a waste of time for us to pay attention to such immature statements. It is also laughable to say that the VPP has any connection with TMC,” VPP Spokesperson Batskhem Myrboh said.
He told Highland that such childish statement “does not have value and people know it very well.”
“Our party is known to the people of the state and if Pyniaid does not have anything better to say against the VPP, then we don’t even have time to talk,” he asserted.
On Syiem’s accusation that VPP chief Ardent M Basaiawmoit had links with the then Chief Minister, Dr Mukul Sangma in the matter of the MUDA building bye-laws, Myrboh said that clarifications have been made during a public meeting held in Laitkor.
“Our chief (Ardent) has clarified everything on this issue in the past and it has been settled. Even Late HS Shylla who is very critical about things has agreed to Basaiawmoit clarification on the issue,” he said.
Myrboh said Syiem should also go back and listen to the clarifications and to stop misleading people by baseless statements, which is made out of insecurity he has towards the VPP.
It may be noted that Syiem lost the Mawryngkneng Assembly seat to the VPP’s Heaving Stone Kharpran in the state election earlier this year, only a little more than a year after Syiem won the constituency by-election on a National People’s Party (NPP) ticket.
For that dramatic reversal of fortune, Syiem blames the support of the TMC for Kharpran, despite the fact that the TMC barely made a dent in Khasi-Jaiñtia Hills.
