BJP ticket aspirants strike accord
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 10 2016:
Non-Congress candidates who fought for Lamsang Assembly seat in earlier elections and who are now vying for BJP ticket for the forthcoming Assembly election have struck an agreement to support whoever gets the BJP ticket.
The ex-candidates came to this understanding at a political conference held today at Khonghampat Awang Leikai community hall under the aegis of the BJP Lamsang Mandal.
They further resolved to fight collectively if the party's authority gives party ticket to someone else other than from amongst them.
Nonetheless, they agreed to strengthen BJP Lamsang Mandal.
Addressing the conference, BJP Manipur Pradesh president Ksh Bhabananda compared Congress to an expired drug.
He then called upon all the people to uproot Congress from Manipur as well as India.
Manipur cannot achieve any significant development under the Congress rule on account of administrative failures.
The Congress Government has been treating public administration like contract works.
As such, keeping the Congress party in power any longer would prove disastrous for Manipur, Bhabananda said.
He then called upon the gathering to make the 2017 State Assembly election the last election for Congress party.
On seeing BJP's growth in the State, Congress party's now feels threatened.
If Manipur must be saved, BJP must be elected to power, he asserted.
State Election Management Committee convenor Th Chaoba said the main agenda of BJP in the forthcoming State Assembly election would be abolition of Congress party and eradication of corruption.
Ex-Minister S Rajen said that all the roads of Lamsang AC have deteriorated to the most pathetic condition while people have no access to safe drinking water even though there is a Congress MLA since the past 15 years.
Its time for the people of Lamsang AC to teach the incumbent MLA a befitting lesson.
Rather than discharging his duties as a representative of the people, the incumbent MLA has been running an NGO thereby earning huge money for personal aggrandisement, Rajen charged.
He went on to ask if the incumbent has ever raised a single issue pertaining to the people of Lamsang AC in the State Assembly.
He then appealed to the party's authority not to give party ticket to any one who earlier worked for Congress party.