Shillong, Oct 11: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will be contesting all the sixty seats in the coming Meghalaya assembly election schedule to be held early next year. The decision for contesting all the sixty assembly seats was taken during the party’s central executive committee meeting Tuesday at the NCP office at Kench Traces.
Meghalaya NCP unit convener Sanbor Shullai told this reporter Wednesday night that the party had already cleared the names of forty candidates and the remaining twenty candidates names will be decided by the political committee soon.
Besides Sanbor Shullai, the meeting was attended by its general secretary GS Choudhary, treasurer Danny Jyrwa, party’s youth wing president H Rynthathiang and the party mahila president D Dkhar.
Shullai said, “The name of the forty candidates will be announced shortly while candidates for the remaining twenty seats will be decided by the party’s political committee.” According to him besides the top party leaders there were fifty members who had attended the meeting.
NCP central observer in charge of the north eastern states including West Bengal former Rajya Sabha MP Robert Kharshiing, however, could not attend the meeting because of ill health. Shullai said, “Kharshiing had to leave for treatment as he is not well.”
Shullai also informed that Meghalaya speaker Charles Pyngrope had sent a show cause notices to the eleven NCP legislators who had merged with the National People’s Party (NPP). He has filed a complaint seeking disqualification of the eleven legislators under the anti-defection act.
The eleven NCP legislators headed by its leader Conrad Sangma had merged with the Purno A Sangma NPP as the latter had left the NCP because the party did not support his candidature for the presidential election, which he lost to Congress candidate Pranab Mukherjee. – By Suraj Joshi
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