Meghalaya: NPP chalks out strategies for polls in three states

23 July 2018:

The National People’s Party (NPP) chalked out its strategies for Assembly elections in Mizoram, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and Lok Sabha election of next year at a meeting held in New Delhi on Saturday.

The meeting, chaired by NPP chief and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, empowered the party’s election committee to devise strategies for a good show in the three poll-bound states.

Sangma urged party workers to focus on their strength and push the agenda of inclusive growth for indigenous and minority communities as they go to the polls with a renewed vigour.

“NPP is a new party but within a short span of time, it has been able to make its presence felt across the Northeast and Rajasthan. We have to capitalize on our strength and make an attempt to unitedly raise the voices and concerns of people and work for the welfare of indigenous people, minorities and the vulnerable section of the society,” he said.

It was decided at the meeting that the NPP will contest in Mizoram but had not finalised the number of seats it would contest. Sangma said the party was in talks with regional forces for a possible merger. The NPP also decided to field candidates from different seats across the country in the Lok Sabha election.