Meghalaya Elections: Lone MLA From Sharad Pawar's NCP Joins Congress
NDTV
MLA Saleng Sangma, who quit the NCP and joined the Congress, was elected to the Meghalaya legislative assembly in 2018 from the Gambegre constituency in the West Garo Hills district.
A month before the February 27 assembly elections, the lone Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator in Meghalaya quit the Assembly and the party on Monday and joined the opposition Congress.
So far, 19 Meghalaya MLAs have resigned from the assembly and their respective parties and joined others in around two months.
MLA Saleng Sangma, who quit the NCP and joined the Congress, was elected to the Meghalaya legislative assembly in 2018 from the Gambegre constituency in the West Garo Hills district.
Saleng Sangma said he joined the Congress because it is a bigger platform and not for the vote bank.
