Congress meets Meghalaya governor seeks to stake claim to form government
And Mizoram, headed for polls later this year, may see a bitter contest between the incumbent Congress party and the BJP-led North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), in which the Mizo National Front (MNF) is a key player.
Conrad Sangma's NPP has won 19 seats in the assembly elections and has the support of six legislators from the United Democratic Party, four from People's Democratic Front (PDF), and two each from the HSPDP and the BJP, besides an Independent lawmaker Samuel Sangma.
The saffron splash in Northeast swept the red bastion of Tripura, apart from putting BJP in place to stitch non-Congress governments in Nagaland and Meghalaya.
A few days before counting in Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya, Rahul Gandhi tweeted to say he was visiting his grandmother to give her a surprise hug.
"On Saturday, in response to a question posed by a reporter during a press conference Amit Shah took a jibe at Congress President Rahul Gandhi's absence saying that 'there are elections in Italy as well".
Modi's BJP is now governing 19 of India's 29 states, compared with five by the Congress party.
The Congress president thanked party workers for their efforts.
BJP leaders have hailed the verdict and said it is a precursor to what will happen in Karnataka and other parts of the country.
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Don't blame Muhammad Ali Jinnah for partition, says Farooq Abdullah
He said if it weren't for their refusal there would have been only one India. He said, "Jinnah was not going to divide the country". Or else there would have been no separation.
But the biggest lesson has come from Tripura, where the Congress failed to open its account.
In Tripura it was found that a whole party migrated to BJP.
The Congress and BJP also got mired in a "photoshop" feud with the Congress blaming BJP for using pothole and garbage pictures from Nepal and passing it off as pictures from Bengaluru. Does it stand for demand for division of State of Tripura?
In Nagaland, the BJP is in government with the NPF and yet fought and election in alliance with opposition party NDPP, the Congress leader said. And Naga Accord? he asked.
Currently, the BJP runs governments in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Manipur.
What the BJP has strategically done here is realised this trend before the Congress and stepped in as a guarantor by backing a regional outfit. They broke off our party supporters and took them with them.
The youngest son of former Meghalaya chief minister PA Sangma, he was schooled at St Columba's in New Delhi and went on to complete his BBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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