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GUWAHATI: The approaching elections in 3 states of the Northeast can be a fight for survival for the Congress which as soon as dominated all the area however has now gotten lowered to a shadow of its wonderful previous. The Congress’ slide within the Northeast started after the BJP’s emergence as a powerhouse in 2014.
Simultaneous elections within the 60-member Assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura are anticipated in February.
As apparently now, the Congress isn’t within the race to energy in any of those states. It lacks leaders after lots of them embraced the ruling celebration and different events over a time period.
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The Congress does no longer have a unmarried MLA in Nagaland, only one in Tripura and 5 in Meghalaya.
Alternatively, the 5 in Meghalaya have been suspended previous this 12 months by means of the celebration’s central management for cosying as much as the Conrad Okay Sangma govt.
The Congress had emerged as the only biggest celebration within the 2018 Meghalaya Meeting elections however the Nationwide Other folks’s Celebration (NPP)-led motley alliance shaped the federal government.
In November ultimate 12 months, 12 of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, led by means of former Leader Minister Mukul Sangma, jumped send to put on Trinamool Congress (TMC) colors. Their desertion relegated the grand previous celebration to a extra minor celebration and made the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC the state’s most important Opposition celebration in a single day. TMC had no base within the state previous to that.
Shillong MP H Pala is now Congress’s lone outstanding face within the Christian-majority state. The Congress is not going to, in all probability, have a unmarried MLA by the point it is going to elections because the 5 suspended legislators have roughly ditched the celebration and are more likely to contest the polls at the tickets of alternative political events.
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In Tripura, Sudip Roy Barman is the Congress’ handiest MLA. He had gained the ultimate election at the BJP’s price ticket and was once inducted into the ministry however he resigned from the Meeting and the celebration in February this 12 months after falling out with the then-Leader Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. Later, he gained a by-election, necessitated by means of his resignation.
The Congress had didn’t win a unmarried seat within the 2018 Tripura elections which the BJP swept, decimating the Left.
The Congress had additionally drawn a clean within the Nagaland elections of 2018. The celebration, which had gained many elections underneath former Leader Minister SC Jamir, is now just about misplaced within the state which is dominated by means of a coalition of BJP, Nationalist Democratic Innovative Celebration, and Naga Other folks’s Entrance. All MLAs within the state are from those 3 events.
The elections within the 3 states are across the nook however no longer many of us are speaking concerning the Congress.
Celebration leaders, then again, attempt to post a courageous face. “So what if now we have one MLA? Atal Bihari Vajpayee had simply two MPs however he went directly to transform the High Minister,” Tripura Congress leader Birajit Sinha instructed this newspaper. “There’s a lot happening in Tripura. Other folks will vote us to energy,” he stated expectantly, simply days after seven Congress leaders, led by means of former state leader Pijush Kanti Biswas, joined the TMC in Tripura.
The Congress in Nagaland sounded similarly constructive. “The Congress is the one choice and folks will vote for it. No longer handiest has the Naga political factor remained unresolved, however the state, underneath the existing govt, may be going through bifurcation,” state Congress president Okay Therie stated regarding the call for of an influential tribal group for the introduction of “Frontier Nagaland” state in japanese Nagaland.
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GUWAHATI: The approaching elections in 3 states of the Northeast can be a fight for survival for the Congress which as soon as dominated all the area however has now gotten lowered to a shadow of its wonderful previous. The Congress’ slide within the Northeast started after the BJP’s emergence as a powerhouse in 2014.
Simultaneous elections within the 60-member Assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura are anticipated in February.
As apparently now, the Congress isn’t within the race to energy in any of those states. It lacks leaders after lots of them embraced the ruling celebration and different events over a time period.
COLUMN | The King’s Speech: Why the BJP might in finding it tricky to go back to energy in Tripura
The Congress does no longer have a unmarried MLA in Nagaland, only one in Tripura and 5 in Meghalaya.
Alternatively, the 5 in Meghalaya have been suspended previous this 12 months by means of the celebration’s central management for cosying as much as the Conrad Okay Sangma govt.
The Congress had emerged as the only biggest celebration within the 2018 Meghalaya Meeting elections however the Nationwide Other folks’s Celebration (NPP)-led motley alliance shaped the federal government.
In November ultimate 12 months, 12 of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya, led by means of former Leader Minister Mukul Sangma, jumped send to put on Trinamool Congress (TMC) colors. Their desertion relegated the grand previous celebration to a extra minor celebration and made the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC the state’s most important Opposition celebration in a single day. TMC had no base within the state previous to that.
Shillong MP H Pala is now Congress’s lone outstanding face within the Christian-majority state. The Congress is not going to, in all probability, have a unmarried MLA by the point it is going to elections because the 5 suspended legislators have roughly ditched the celebration and are more likely to contest the polls at the tickets of alternative political events.
ALSO READ | 4 Meghalaya MLAs sign up for BJP forward of upcoming elections
In Tripura, Sudip Roy Barman is the Congress’ handiest MLA. He had gained the ultimate election at the BJP’s price ticket and was once inducted into the ministry however he resigned from the Meeting and the celebration in February this 12 months after falling out with the then-Leader Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. Later, he gained a by-election, necessitated by means of his resignation.
The Congress had didn’t win a unmarried seat within the 2018 Tripura elections which the BJP swept, decimating the Left.
The Congress had additionally drawn a clean within the Nagaland elections of 2018. The celebration, which had gained many elections underneath former Leader Minister SC Jamir, is now just about misplaced within the state which is dominated by means of a coalition of BJP, Nationalist Democratic Innovative Celebration, and Naga Other folks’s Entrance. All MLAs within the state are from those 3 events.
The elections within the 3 states are across the nook however no longer many of us are speaking concerning the Congress.
Celebration leaders, then again, attempt to post a courageous face. “So what if now we have one MLA? Atal Bihari Vajpayee had simply two MPs however he went directly to transform the High Minister,” Tripura Congress leader Birajit Sinha instructed this newspaper. “There’s a lot happening in Tripura. Other folks will vote us to energy,” he stated expectantly, simply days after seven Congress leaders, led by means of former state leader Pijush Kanti Biswas, joined the TMC in Tripura.
The Congress in Nagaland sounded similarly constructive. “The Congress is the one choice and folks will vote for it. No longer handiest has the Naga political factor remained unresolved, however the state, underneath the existing govt, may be going through bifurcation,” state Congress president Okay Therie stated regarding the call for of an influential tribal group for the introduction of “Frontier Nagaland” state in japanese Nagaland.
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