SHILLONG, June 11 -- NPP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Thursday expressed confidence that the MDA candidate and party state president Dr WR Kharlukhi will emerge victorious in the election to the lone Rajya Sabha seat, slated to be held on June 19."We are fully ready (for the election). Now we are only waiting for the moment and I am 101 per cent that Dr Kharlukhi will emerge victorious," Tynsong told reporters.

When asked that earlier the PDF leader Banteidor Lyngdoh had alleged there was no consensus in the selection of the MDA official candidate, the deputy CM however said, "Please reconfirm this from him. If he said it is not consensus please go and reconfirm it from him."

Tynsong maintained that the decision ...