GANGTOK, 25 Sept: Former Deputy Chief Minister, PT Lucksom, the president of the newly installed Sikkim unit of the Trinamool Congress party today stated that the party will contest the 2014 Assembly elections with full vigour.
“We will contest elections with full force and try to oust the ruling SDF because our party has already shown our model of developmental politics in West Bengal by pulling down the Left rule,” said Mr. Lucksom.
Mr. Lucksom had served as the Deputy Chief Minister during SDF’s first term in in 1994 but was soon stripped of his post and expelled from the party two years later.
Asked on his choice for a non-local yet non-national party in Sikkim’s politics, he said he was impressed by TMC’s politics for development. “They approached us to form a unit and we formed the unit after meeting TMC leader Mukul Roy recently. We will put forward some Sikkim specific agendas with the party high command soon,” added Mr Lucksom.
The TMC-Sikkim president further indicated that he plans to meet Mamata Banerjee on 30 September and discuss strategies to mobilize the party’s support base in Sikkim. According to Mr Lucksom, his party may even forge an alliance with local outfits for the 2014 polls.
The 65-year-old politician who floated NEBHOLA party after exiting the SDF said the ruling party in Sikkim has failed to keep its promises. “Some are calling for Parivartan (change), but we want Su-Parivartan (positive change) in Sikkim for which we will rope in fresh yet politically mature people in our fold. People will see how positive changes this party intends to bring”, said Mr Lucksom.
“We will contest elections with full force and try to oust the ruling SDF because our party has already shown our model of developmental politics in West Bengal by pulling down the Left rule,” said Mr. Lucksom.
Mr. Lucksom had served as the Deputy Chief Minister during SDF’s first term in in 1994 but was soon stripped of his post and expelled from the party two years later.
Asked on his choice for a non-local yet non-national party in Sikkim’s politics, he said he was impressed by TMC’s politics for development. “They approached us to form a unit and we formed the unit after meeting TMC leader Mukul Roy recently. We will put forward some Sikkim specific agendas with the party high command soon,” added Mr Lucksom.
The TMC-Sikkim president further indicated that he plans to meet Mamata Banerjee on 30 September and discuss strategies to mobilize the party’s support base in Sikkim. According to Mr Lucksom, his party may even forge an alliance with local outfits for the 2014 polls.
The 65-year-old politician who floated NEBHOLA party after exiting the SDF said the ruling party in Sikkim has failed to keep its promises. “Some are calling for Parivartan (change), but we want Su-Parivartan (positive change) in Sikkim for which we will rope in fresh yet politically mature people in our fold. People will see how positive changes this party intends to bring”, said Mr Lucksom.
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