Shillong, Former Meghalaya Minister Dr. Celestine Lyngdoh will continue
as president of the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), Congress Lok
Sabha member Vincent H.Pala said on Tuesday. This decision was taken during the meeting of MLAs and office bearers of the MPCC, Leader of Opposition Dr. Celestine Lyngdoh among others with AICC general secretary
Luizinho Faleiro via video conferencing on Monday. Pala said the meeting has also resolved to reorganize the party as part of its preparation for the upcoming Assembly elections in 2023.”All legislators gave various suggestions on the need to strengthen the party as well as reorganize the party in those areas that did not have MLAs,” the former Union Minister said. Denying division in the party and demand for replacement of the MPCC president, the
veteran Congress parliamentarian said, “all the party legislators heard the president who
explained his position especially as his mother is unwell and she had to undergo some
operation.” “The MLAs had written the letter to the AICC on the need to strengthen and re-organise
the party but not for change of leadership,” Pala said.On changing the present CLP leader Dr Mukul Sangma, Pala defended saying that the Leader of Opposition is in Garo Hills monitoring the situation as well as start the
preparation for the upcoming elections to the GHADC.The Shillong MP said that all MLAs decided to repose their confidence in the leadership of the present MPCC leader, while suggesting better coordination between the CLP and
the party, strengthens the party right from the grassroot level and focus on the youth as
well. Pala informed that during the meeting, the AICC general secretary suggested the party
to have more spokespersons and proposed a roadmap for the overall strengthening of
the party keeping in mind the upcoming election to the State Assembly in 2023.To question that Congress MLAs may leave the party as it is in the opposition, Pala said that MLAs come and go and some of them left the party wanting to be in the ruling.”There are also others who come and join the party. We have another two and half
years before the Assembly elections, and it is not possible to say now who will come
and join the party or who will leave. We have seen in the last 2018 Assembly elections,
some MLAs of the party left the party just before the elections. Therefore we cannot
predict anything now,” Pala said.