Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) Secretary Manuel Badwar has asserted that the INDIA alliance is still intact even though the party decided to fight the Lok Sabha polls separately in Meghalaya.
“It is a give and take policy. So there are places in which we have to negotiate for our own and in others the other parties have to,” Badwar said.
Yesterday the Congress high command officially released the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls expected to be held in April-May this year. As per the list for Meghalaya, sitting MP Vincent H. Pala will contest from the Shillong seat while party MLA Saleng A. Sangma will contest from Tura seat.
Badwar said that the Congress has a “fantastic” candidate for the Tura seat. He said Sangma is a winnable candidate and he will definitely show the true colours of what the entire set up is all about even as he added that this is only good for Indian democracy.
“If the Congress wins, society wins. If the Congress is not that strong believe it or not the society will also fail especially in this autocratic kind of a set up,” Badwar said.
He said that in states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar the INDIA alliance is very much strong which only indicates that the party who we are working with is willing to work hand in hand with the Congress including willing to walk the mile.
“But it is not that somebody has to suppress us or we have to suppress somebody. It has to be a symbiotic relationship in which both of us win. It cannot be the relationship is only a take and no giving,” the MPCC secretary said.
He said that if such a relationship happens the Congress will put its foot down and the party should also know where its strength lies.
According to Badwar, INDIA alliance is intact and the Congress knows with whom to participate and become partners.
