The National People’s Party (NPP) has been leading Meghalaya for over six years now but that has resulted not in an anti-incumbency feeling but only positive vibes, the party’s candidate for the Shillong Lok Sabha seat, state cabinet minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, maintained today.
Lyngdoh is one of the challengers to sitting MP Vincent Pala, who has held the seat since 2009 for the opposition Congress Party.
“Everywhere we are going (in the state) there is progress and development,” Lyngdoh said. “Look at our farmers, who are doing so much better today. Look at the income generated and livelihoods generated in the farming sector. They are all indicative that we are progressing… To my knowledge, we are doing better everywhere – health, education, tourism, job generation – so where is the anti-incumbency feeling?”
Even if there is any anti-government feeling, it should apply to all the parties within the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government and not just the NPP, which leads the coalition, she said.
