Shillong, Sept 10: Suspense over the fate of the merger of the Meghalaya unit of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) with the National People’s Party (NPP) and the complaints against the twelve NCP legislators by their central leadership continues as Meghalaya Speaker Charles Pyngrope flew off to Colombo to attend the 58th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference Monday.
Before leaving Monday, Pyngrope told www.ohmeghalaya.com that he would be returning after ten days and give is verdict on the complaint submitted by the NCP national general secretary DP Tripathi against the twelve NCP legislators who had merged with the NPP recently.
Tripathi had written to Pyngrope to take action as per the Anti Defection Act against the twelve legislators as there was no merger in the NCP at the national level. The twelve NCP legislators in Meghalaya had argued that the Meghalaya unit of the party is merging with the NPP and, therefore, doesn’t attract any actions under the anti-defection act.
As Pyngrope sat on the letter of the twelve NCP legislators who had requested him to recognize them as NPP, the legislators continued to be counted as NCP in the recently held autumn session of the Meghalaya assembly.
The inaction of the speaker on the letter of the twelve NCP legislators to be recognized as NPP and the complaint against them by their central leadership has put both the NPP and NCP in Meghalaya in political wilderness. – By Our Reporter
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