AIZAWL, Sept 24: With an eye on Mizoram
Assembly elections, the National People’s
Party (NPP) plans to officially launch Mizoram
State unit in September.
NPP national spokesperson James Sangma
said Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma
will launch the party’s Mizoram unit in Aizawl.
“NPP has decided to contest the upcoming
Mizoram elections, I am here to meet party
functionaries. Details of leadership will be
announced very soon,” James Sangma said.
He expressed optimism that NPP will open
account in the State Assembly polls due to be
held in late November or early December.
On speculations that the ousted Congress
vice president and resigned Home Minister
R Lalzirliana would head the party in Mizoram,
Sangma said he has been meeting Lalzirliana
for quite a number of times and they
discussed current politics.
“We have been in talks with the former Health
Minister Lalzirliana and other politicians too.
Things will get clear soon,” Sangma said.
The NPP is part of the BJP-led NDA at Centre
and is a constituent of North East Democratic
Alliance (NEDA).
In Meghalaya, NPP
is the major partner of the ruling MDA alliance
while in Nagaland and Manipur, it is part
of the ruling alliance.
Sangma, who is also Meghalaya Home Minister
and elder brother of Meghalaya CM, however,
said his party has its own ideology and
that despite being a member of NDA, his party
opposed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
He said his party would contest the election
without any pre-poll alliance, but in case
of a hung Assembly the party would be seeking
post-poll alliance. - Assam Tribune
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