DELHI, Aug 25 NNN: “Don’t depend on quotas or reservation. You too can compete.”
This was the advice of former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A Sangma to her daughter Agatha Sangma which was related by the latter to the gathering of Tangkhuls in New Delhi today.
Organised by Tangkhul Sinao Long, New Delhi unit under the theme, “Women contribution to society,” Lok Sabha MP from Meghalaya Agatha Sangma exhorted the jam-packed gather at Indian Social Institute hall, Lodhi Road, Delhi, not to depend on reservation or quotas.
She recalled how her father P.A Sangma advised her when she was a young girl, not to enjoy the reservation or quotas saying that she had every qualities to compete with others.
“By possessing certain feeling that we are backward community and weak section of the society we deprive ourselves from competing and doing big,” said Agatha Sangma.
She gave an example how M.C Mary Kom could achieve so much in the big world of sports in the international level.
Agatha Sangma then said she never grew up under her father’s shadow. Though her father has been the Lok Sabha Speaker, that clout never came to her and in all her activities as a young student. Agatha Sangma then admitted that she was ignorant about her home state Meghalaya. “But I came closer and came to know better about the North East and even her home state Meghalaya after she had become a Lok Sabha MP. The function was also attended by Tangkhul Sinao Long president Sila Konghay as guest of honour.
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