BJP rules out pre-poll alliance
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 03 2016:
BJP Manipur Pradesh has ruled out any possibility of forging pre-poll alliance with other political parties ahead of the Manipur Legislative Assembly election which is due early next year.
Speaking to media persons today BJP Manipur Pradesh spokesperson Okram Joy stated that BJP Central leaders have already announced their decision not to forge any pre-poll alliance with regard to the Manipur Legislative Assembly election.
The propaganda that BJP would form a pre-poll alliance with Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) in Langthabal AC is baseless.
LJP is a tail of NDA at the Centre and a tail of Congress party in Manipur, Joy asserted.
BJP cannot form alliance with any 'tail' of Congress party.
BJP's principle and its political strategy to uproot Congress party from all over the country does not give any room for alliance.
Saying that he joined the Socialist Party when he was very young, Joy confided that he was inspired by a speech of former Chief Minister Rishang Keishing to join electoral politics who was then a member of the Socialist Party.
"From the very young age, I joined electoral politics with the ideology of being anti-Congress.
Over the years, I was elected seven times to the Manipur Legislative Assembly while I lost two times", Joy recounted.
He said that he joined BJP at the invitation of some party leaders but some people made no secret to keep him away from BJP.
"Some of the BJP Manipur Pradesh leaders are former Congress men expelled from the party.
But I never took refuge in Congress party and there is no meeting point between my ideology and Congress party's ideology", Joy asserted.
BJP core committee has been holding a series of meetings at Delhi.
Although many strategies are being discussed there, the agenda of barring BJP members who are 75 years old and above from contesting elections never figured in the meetings.
It was not right for those self-styled BJP leaders who are former members of Congress to feed wrong information to media, he said.
Each MLA is given Rs one crore from the State plan in a year but some shrewd MLAs get Rs two crore.
Stating that the Canchipur Water Supply Plant has been supplying potable water to different places of Langthabal, Keirao, Thongju, Naoriya Pakhanglakpa and Singjamei Assembly segments with the exception of Khongnang Pheidekpi and Aheibam Leikai, Joy said that he would launch democratic forms of agitation if potable water is not made available at the left out areas at the earliest.
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