The counting of votes for the Meghalaya Assembly elections ended on Thursday with the National People’s Party (NPP) coming out as the single largest party with 26 seats, as no party was able to touch the majority mark (31 seats) on its own. The former ally of NPP, Bharatiya Janata
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Sarma said that his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad Sangma called Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking support to form a government in the state. “Chief Minister of Meghalaya Conrad Sangma called Amit Shah ji, Hon’ble Home Minister and sought his support and blessings in forming the new
As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance partner Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) crossed the majority mark by winning 37 seats in Nagaland, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday thanked the people of the state. PM Modi said that the double-engine government will keep working for the state’s
After trailing in the earlier rounds of counting for the Nagaland Assembly, the BJP’s Nagaland chief Temjen Imna Along opened up a lead in his constituency, Alongtaki, on Thursday. According to the latest counting trends shared by the Election Commission of India at 12.15 pm, the BJP Nagaland chief was
The ruling alliance of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and the BJP was leading in 24 Assembly constituencies in Nagaland, nearing the majority mark of 31, as per the latest counting trends shared by the Election Commission at 11 am. Polling for the 60 Assembly constituencies in the state