Mukul Sangma to meet loyalists amid reports of moving to TMC

A Congress MLA close to Sangma confirmed that he would meet his loyalists late on Friday to chalk out a future strategy.

Speculation over former chief minister of Meghalaya and Congress leader, Mukul Sangma, joining the Trinamool Congress gained momentum on Friday, with Sangma saying that he “will meet first”, but “nothing concrete” has yet been decided.

Meghalaya former CM Mukul Sangma has visited Delhi twice in September, but failed to meet the party high command, says a Congress leader. (PTI)

“Who told you this?... Why do you people speculate so much when there’s nothing concrete yet? I said we will meet first, so there’s nothing else I can tell you now,” he said over the phone.

A Congress MLA close to Sangma, however, confirmed that he would meet his loyalists late on Friday to chalk out a future strategy.

Another Congress leader said that the former CM has visited Delhi twice in September, but failed to meet the party high command. “Can you imagine, he (Mukul) went twice to Delhi but met only junior party functionaries the first time and the second even after he had sought an appointment with Madam (Sonia Gandhi) in advance, she did not see him...,” he said.