As Meghalaya’s political chessboard begins to shift dramatically ahead of the 2028 Assembly elections, the Voice of the People Party (VPP) has sharpened its attack on the ruling National People’s Party (NPP), forecasting its imminent decline amid alleged internal unrest.
VPP spokesperson Dr. Batskhem Myrboh asserted that the NPP’s rapid expansion and influx of legislators will ultimately become its undoing, describing the party as a coalition of conflicting personal ambitions rather than unified political ideology.
“As many MLAs they joined the NPP, I already foresee the downfall of the party NPP as they had to do a lot of balancing work within the party as well as with coalition partners,” Myrboh warned, lacing his statement with unmistakable political prophecy. He accused the ruling party of being a conglomerate of self-seeking leaders rather than a disciplined political movement, asserting that “NPP, you should remember that. It is a political party full of people having their own respective individual desires. It is not so much about service, but about power, about control of resources, about enjoying the position.”
In a pointed critique that shook the political narrative, Myrboh said such a power-centric structure is inherently unstable and destined to implode. “To do the right balancing work in such kind of political entity where people don’t go for service, definitely such kind of political entity would never last long,” he remarked, signalling that the cracks within the NPP-led coalition are widening faster than the ruling establishment admits.
Turning the heat further, the VPP spokesperson dismissed speculations about his party’s diminishing popularity, asserting that the “battle for 2028” has already turned in their favour. “I got the information that the opponents of VPP hired social media warriors to create false contents against VPP and even to comment in the comment section of social media in order to make VPP appear losing popularity at the ground level, but you see the mood of the people is 2028 will obviously it will be VPP, we have no hesitation or doubt that people will repose faith on VPP,” he declared.
Positioning the VPP as the torchbearer of clean politics and regional resurgence, Myrboh made it clear that the party is not chasing defectors or sitting MLAs but the “trust of the people.” With a surging grassroots movement across the Khasi–Jaintia Hills and the political winds turning unpredictable, Meghalaya’s road to 2028 may well be heading toward a fierce showdown — one where the NPP’s empire, as Myrboh predicts, could crumble under the weight of its own ambitions.
