Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Saturday said that the NPP will not forge an alliance with any party, including the BJP, for the upcoming assembly elections in the state.
Though the National People’s Party (NPP) will remain in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre, Sangma said, the two parties are not on the same page on different issues ideologically. Meghalaya is likely to go to polls early next year.
“We are not going to contest the next assembly elections in alliance with anyone, including the BJP,” NPP president Sangma told reporters here after the party’s national convention. Sangma said the NPP does not have a pre-poll alliance with any party in any state, and underlined that the party will also contest the upcoming assembly elections in Odisha and Chhattisgarh alone.
However, he also said that the NPP will remain focused on state elections in Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. The NPP had contested the 2018 assembly elections in Meghalaya alone. However, the party which came second after Congress allied with the BJP to form the government in the state. With two MLAs, the BJP has been a minor ally in the NPP-led government in Meghalaya since 2018.
Sangma also thanked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP to elect Draupadi Murmu, a tribal, as the President of India.
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