Shillong, Oct 25: Chief minister, Mukul Sangma has described sitting Congress MLAs who deserted the party as “turncoats” and said that the party would ensure their defeat in the upcoming Assembly election.
“One by one you name them, we will ensure their defeat. We have collected inputs and we know their positions. Electoral battle is not a battle which is so easy, so simple,” Sangma said while reacting to a query.
He said that the reason for ‘turncoats’ to look at the other side was because they have self centric agenda.
“We know how to reach out to the electorates and how to ultimately take on them during the electoral battle. We have very strong candidates against all these turncoats. The Congress has shown its capacity to deal with such kind of situation,” the chief minister said.

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