Dy CM takes pot shots at BJP candidate
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 23 2017:
Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam has said that the people need to be cautious of political parties who stomps the idea of territorial integrity of the State in the race to win the coming election.
Speaking at a political conference for Thangmeiband INC candidate Kh Joykisan organised at Thangmeiband Tarung community hall by Thangmeiband Block Congress Committee, Gaikhangam said, "The coming 11th State Assembly election is a very important one.
So, the people need to come together in order to elect the right leaders.
If a political party pretending to stand for the State comes to power, then surely all will be lost.
"The Congress party does not differentiate between the people of the hills and the valley.
The party does not differentiate along religion.
History is proof that the Congress party stands for the welfare of the people", he said.
Praising Thangmeiband INC candidate Kh Joykisan, Gaikhangam pointed out that although Joykisan was briefly on the Opposition bench, the Congress party is his real home and as he has been given the party ticket for the coming election, the right candidate is in the right party.
"Jyotin Waikhom could also have stayed in the Congress party warmly welcoming the new member.
He should have been proud of the fact that there is no other political party except Congress to protect Manipur.
"He seems to have been swayed by petty politics and it is unfortunate that he joined another party which he had bashed repeatedly in the past ", Gaikhangam said.
Gaikhangam appealed to the people to support Joykisan who he termed as young but mature, and further appealed to the people to support and help the Congress party in forming the Government yet again.
Speaking at the Event, Kh Joykisan said that the people of the State already know that the Congress party will form the Government.
He appealed to the people to support him in order to bring development and progress to the Kendra and to finish all the work he could not complete in the last five years.