SHILLONG: Two of the five Congress MLAs in Meghalaya joined the ruling National People's Party (NPP) on Monday, six days after the four MLAs of different political parties joined the BJP.
Congress legislators – Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh and Mohendro Rapsang – resigned from the Assembly on Monday and then in the evening, joined the NPP at a ceremony, where Chief Minister and NPP President Conrad K. Sangma, Rajya Sabha MP and NPP state President WR Kharlukhi and other senior leaders were present. With Lyngdoh and Rapsang quitting, the Congress now has three MLAs in the 60-member Meghalaya Assembly.
The Congress earlier suspended all the five party MLAs for their hobnobbing with the NPP leadership, especially the Chief Minister. However, in the Assembly records, they are still Congress members. Meghalaya, along with Nagaland and Tripura, are slated to go for polls in February. IANS
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