Veteran Meghalaya Politician Dr Lapang may join NPP

Veteran Meghalaya Politician Dr Lapang may join NPP

A Correspondent

SHILLONG: Veteran Meghalaya politician Dr Donwa Dethwelson Lapang may join the National People’s Party (NPP) if a public meeting held at Nongpoh on Saturday has anything to go by.

Dr Lapang held a public meeting at Dinam Hall at Pahamsohthri, Nongpoh to publicly clarify the reason he quit the Congress party.

The veteran politician organized the meeting base on the people’s request to clarify the reason he left the Congress despite consecutively winning elections from the party.

At the public meeting, successive speakers urged the veteran politician who has been with the Congress for more than four decades to join the NPP.

When Dr Lapang sought the consent of his supporters all in unision said that he should join the NPP.

“I have been with a national party (Congress) all these years. If I join another it will be a national party,” Dr Lapang hinted.

The veteran politician told the gathering that the will to serve the people of the state was still burning in him.

It may be mentioned that Lapang in September this year resigned from the Congress party blaming the All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) policy of phasing out senior and elderly people.

Soon after he resigned from the Congress, the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) coalition appointed him as Chief Adviser to the government.

The 84-year-old Congress veteran was appointed as the Chief minister of Meghalaya in 1992, 2003, 2007 and 2009.

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