Former MDC Neil Antonio War has quit the United Democratic Party (UDP), he has revealed, though he was coy on which party he will now plump for.
Meanwhile, it was also announced that two founding members of the People’s Democratic Front (PDF), also ex-MDCs, Hadrian Lyngdoh and Albinus Lyngdoh, have left the party they helped create.
War, the former MDC for Laitumkhrah-Malki, has been with the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before joining the UDP in 2018.
He said that he will now lend his support to the strongest political party but he declined to mention which one he meant. War claimed that important issues are not being discussed in the UDP and he wants to be in a party that voices issues that are close to the people.
Meanwhile, Hadrian Lyngdoh said that he will not run in next year’s state elections but will support a party to be revealed in a few days. Terming the political scenario in his former seat of Mawkyrwat as peculiar, he said that, there, three parties – UDP, Congress and Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) – are the favourites and the PDF is nowhere.
Albinus Lyngdoh, former Umroi MDC, also said that he will not contest the 2023 election but will support a different political party from the PDF.
