NPP's strength increases to 32 MLAs in 60-member Meghalaya Assembly

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Shillong: The National People’s Party (NPP) has achieved a historic milestone by becoming the second political party in Meghalaya’s history to secure 32 legislators in the 60-member Assembly. The swearing-in of Dr. Mehtab Chandee A Sangma, the newly elected legislator from Gambegre, marks a significant achievement for the party, last attained by the APHLC in 1972.

Chief Minister and NPP supremo Conrad K. Sangma dismissed any speculation of a political realignment following the party’s strengthened position. Addressing the media, he emphasized, “We are very happy that the NPP today has 32 MLAs and as mentioned correctly that it is only after APHLC that this number by a particular party has come. So we are very thankful and we would like to thank God and thank the people for this confidence that they shown in us.”

Sangma reaffirmed the party’s commitment to stability within the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, stating, “We have been very clear from day one as a party, as a coalition and as a chief minister, we are here to send a positive message to the people of the state. - yes politics is very complicated, it is very dynamic and there are many factors that comes in us but in the long run I think the message of stability and message of trust and message of confidence is important in politics also and inspite of the fact that we have numbers, we are sticking with our partners.”

“We have shown our confidence in them, they have shown their confidence in us and we would like to see we work in the long run for the stability of the state and overall economic growth of the state. Therefore, there is no question of any realignment or anything like that,” the CM added.

Acknowledging coalition challenges, he added, “There could be challenges within the coalition. There could be differences among political parties, we may not agree on so many things that we would like to do but that’s the nature of a coalition and politics but at the end what we agree on is that we should work together with full commitment for the overall development of the state and that is what is at the centre what we try to do as a coalition. I would like to once again reiterate that our full support as well as our full confidence, question of realignment is not there and all the partners are with us and we will continue to work together.”

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