SHILLONG, MAY 7: Chief Minister and National People’s Party chief Conrad K Sangma today said the decision from which seat he would be contesting will be taken at a meeting of the party to be held in the state’s capital on May 9.
“Regarding my situation whether I will contest will be decided in the meeting of the party which will be held day after tomorrow,” Conrad, who is also the Member of Parliament from Tura, told reporters here on Monday.
Asked whether he would be contesting from South Tura, a constituency presently represented by his youngest sister Agatha K Sangma, the NPP chief said that party will take a decision on that. “We will see as we have not really made a call (on this),” he said.
Conrad, who is leading the six-party Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government, had sworn in as the chief minister on March 6. The Tura MP will have to give up his Lok Sabha seat within six months (which will end on September) and contest any Assembly seat to carry on as the chief minister of the state.
He said that the meeting will be attended by the Manipur deputy chief minister Yumnam Joykumar Singh and leaders of the different state units from all over the North Eastern region.
According to him, the meeting will also discuss the need to organize the party for the upcoming elections in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. “Our commitment that we ensure we work for the North East is there and it will continue,” Conrad said.
Meanwhile, the NPP will also felicitate its 20 MLAs from Meghalaya during the occasion.
Asked on his recent meeting in New Delhi, chief minister said it is for the first time that all the chief ministers have attended the meeting convened by the Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to discuss on the Act East Policy.
“The Act East is something which has been there for a very long time and the central government felt that the NE states must play a pro-active role not just to ensure that Act East succeeds but to ensure that we are an integral part of the entire process in the development,” he said.
Stating that all CMs have laid down what they felt is important for Act East to really succeed and for NE states to be part of that process, he said connectivity, trade and other issues were brought up during the meeting which is a starting point for many things to happen.
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