Guwahati: In what may be a major setback for the Congress party, more than seven legislators from ruling alliance in Meghalaya have sought an audience with BJP’s national president Amit Shah during his visit next month.
Though, BJP has described it a ‘courtesy call’, the development has already surcharged the political atmosphere of the frontier state which is schedule to go for general elections in 2018. Meghalaya BJP president Shibun Lyngdoh told this newspaper that, “At least seven legislators from Congress, United Democratic Party and National Peoples Party have approached me for an audience with our national president.”
He however quickly added that it would be too early to say that they want to join BJP. “You can say this is a request for a courtesy calls. They just want to meet our party president,” said Mr Lyngdoh.
The BJP doesn’t have any representative in the present 60-member Meghalaya Assembly.
