Health Minister and NPP’s candidate for the Shillong Lok Sabha seat, Ampareen Lyngdoh has rejected the notion that an election creates rifts between alliance partners.
The NPP, she claimed, always believed in taking allies.
“It is a misconception that relations between the alliance partners get severed during elections and the distance between them increases,” she said when asked if the NPP was distancing itself from the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
The two parties became bitter rivals during the assembly elections earlier this year but mended fences to form the MDA 2.0 government along with other parties.
Lyngdoh said it is not unusual for two parties to go hot and cold in a democracy. “The NPP was attacked below the belt but we rose above it and the chief minister approached all political parties to form an alliance,” she said.
“I am sure that after the (Lok Sabha) elections we will come back working together on the same platform for the benefit of the people,” she added, stressing that she would lead by example to resolve any political issues.
“But I will try my best to defeat my rivals, irrespective of the party,” she said, adding that the competition with candidates from alliance partners could be a friendly one.
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