Northeast Assembly bypolls: Family politics to the fore
The Hindu
Aditya Golay Tamang wins Soreng Chakung unopposed, reflecting family politics in northeastern bypolls; focus on Meghalaya's Gambegre.
Aditya Golay Tamang, son of Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang, won the Soreng Chakung Assembly constituency unopposed, highlighting the family politics ruling the bypolls in three northeastern States.
He was one of the two Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) candidates to win without an election. The other was Satish Chandra Rai, who won the Namchi-Singithang seat after his Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) rival Daniel Rai withdrew from the polls.
The SDF’s Prem Bahadur Bhandari withdrew his candidature from Soreng Chakung, paving the way for Mr. Tamang’s uncontested victory.
The outcome in Sikkim leaves six seats in Assam and Meghalaya, where the byelections will be held on November 13.
The election of the MLAs to the Lok Sabha necessitated the bypolls in five Assembly seats — Behali, Bongaigaon, Dholai, Samaguri, and Sidli — in Assam and the Gambegre constituency in Meghalaya. In Sikkim, the Chief Minister gave up Soreng Chakung, one of two seats he had won, while his wife Krishna Kumar Rai resigned from Namchi-Singithang. “It is an honour to represent the people of Soreng-Chakung,” Mr. Aditya Golay said.
The spotlight in Meghalaya’s Gambegre constituency is on Mehtab Chandee A. Sangma, the wife of Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma and the nominee of the ruling National People’s Party (NPP). A doctor by profession, she is making her debut in electoral politics.
One of her rivals is Sadhiarani M. Sangma, a member of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council and the wife of former Minister Zenith Sangma. She is the Trinamool Congress candidate.
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