The National People’s Party (NPP) candidate for the Shillong parliamentary seat is busy traversing Khasi-Jaintia Hills ahead of the polls.
Ampareen Lyngdoh, a cabinet minister, has name recognition but the NPP is one of several contenders vying to depose the Congress Party’s Vincent Pala from the seat he has occupied since 2009 and which the party has held since the 1990s.
The NPP has yet to come out with its manifesto for the election but that has not stopped Lyngdoh from beginning her campaign already and she has been seen at a number of private and public functions of late.
Stating that she has covered almost 1000km in the past month, Lyngdoh said, “There is this feeling that an MP is a distant person from the democratic process and I want to dispel this myth”.
Lyngdoh, who is aiming to follow in her father Peter Marbaniang’s footsteps as an MP, aims to visit all the 36 state Assembly constituencies that fall under the Shillong Lok Sabha constituency and find out about the problems and issues at the ground level and prepare plans to solve them. Expect to see and hear more of her as the elections draws nearer.
