Nagaland, 7/3: New cabinets headed by Neiphiu Rio and Conrad K Sangma will take oath in Nagaland and Meghalaya, respectively on Tuesday.
In Meghalaya, 12 member cabinet headed by Sangma was sworn in in a ceremony that began around 11 am. Conrad Sangma took oath as the chief minister for a second straight term.
Sangma’s party, National People’s Party (NPP) emerged as the single largest party by winning 26 out of 59 seats for which elections were conducted on February 27. The NPP and four other parties, UDP, BJP, PDF, HSPDP and two Independent MLAs on Monday formed Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA 2.0), a 2018-like coalition to form the next government. The parties, interestingly contested the elections separately and levelled allegations of corruption and failure to deliver against each other during the campaigns. The coalition has 45 MLAs now.
Conrad, 45, is the son of former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma, who died in 2016.
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