Mawphlang-Diengiei MDC Lamphrang Blah, who is also the Chairman of the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC), has stressed on the need for construction of bridges and roads to provide better connectivity to the villages under Mawphlang constituency.
“There are more than 50 villages in my constituency that do not have access to road connectivity for so many decades, which poses a great difficulty to the people in this region,” he told Highland Post.
Blah also said that there is a need to upgrade the health institutions in the area, such as primary health centres (PHCs) and sub-centres, and educational institutions that are still lacking in terms of infrastructure, teachers, etc so that people of the constituency benefit.
“We also need to follow up with the government to speed up the completion of the college in this area which will be a blessing for the students and the people of the constituency as a whole,” he added.
He further stated that he craved to do more and serve and address the hardship faced by the people of his constituency and urged the people to give him a chance to do so by choosing him as their MLA in 2023.
Blah had quit the Congress in order to join the National People’s Party but only finished third in the Mawphlang by-election in October last year, well behind second-placed Kennedy C Khyriem of the Congress and footballer-turned-politician Eugeneson Lyngdoh of the United Democratic Party.
Lyngdoh thus succeeded his father, the late Syntar Klas Sunn, whose death necessitated the by-poll. Lyngdoh won more than 13,000 votes, Khyriem 8,800 and Blah a little over 5,000.
