NPP candidate for the Lok Sabha election from Shillong seat, Ampareen Lyngdoh said that elections are not easy to assess and nobody can guarantee victory for any candidate till the results are out.
“Assessments are just efforts put in by political parties to gauge whether or not they will win a particular election. Soon after the Lok Sabha polls there was a great jubilation by one political party which confidently said that it is winning the election. Actually, MP elections are not very easy elections to assess,” Lyngdoh told media persons here.
“Whether or not the people want me as an MP we will see when the results come. But if you ask me whether or not we have done our assessment, I would say yes but whether or not we should share the details is something we would say no. There is no point in predicting,” she added.
Stating that she has offered her candidature to the people of Shillong parliamentary seat and will wait to see the results, Lyngdoh said, “If people reject me in this election I can still remain an MLA.”
“But I think it is time for Meghalaya to have an MP who has a voice. You need somebody who has the guts to talk, who has the ability to give an opinion on a certain issue,” Lyngdoh said.
According to her, win or lose, she was happy that she had traversed to the nooks and crannies of the 36 constituencies under Shillong parliamentary seat and is well aware of what needs to be done where.
“If you say Meghalaya has not progressed then you are seriously joking because I have gone to the 36 constituencies and the progress is very clear. We have better roads, better health facilities, the employment generation and opportunities across the 36 constituencies is very good and I have seen the housing facilities for the people have improved substantially, access to healthcare education is very much better than before,” she said.
Lyngdoh who is also minister of information and public relations said that the only deficit of the State government is that the good works done were not publicised.
“I am very clear where the deficit lies. The biggest deficit of our government or any past government is publication of the good work they have done. I am going to review this with my IPR Department,” she added.
“I will be sitting with the IPR Department to make sure that we make it mandatory for departments to publicise what they are doing across the board. There is one voice which is negative and says nothing has been done which is wrong,” Lyngdoh said.
