Meghalaya Chief Minister Campaigns Against Ally BJP In Manipur
NDTV
In 2017, the NPP contested only nine seats in which it won four seats - the best strike rate among all parties - and emerged as kingmaker. Without NPP's support, the BJP would not have been able to form a coalition government.
A Chief Minister of one state campaigning in another may not seem like a novel idea but the example of Meghalaya's Conrad Sangma is a curious one.
The Meghalaya Chief Minister is on a four-day visit to Manipur to campaign against the BJP-led alliance of which his party, National Peoples' Party (NPP), is a part of.
In 2017, the NPP contested only nine seats in which it won four seats - the best strike rate among all parties - and emerged as kingmaker. Without NPP's support, the BJP would not have been able to form a coalition government.This time the NPP is fielding 42 candidates for the 60-seat assembly, nearly five times more than last time. 19 of them are BJP leaders who switched sides after being denied tickets.
The BJP, however, has played down the NPP threat.
