With over two-thirds of its Meghalaya MLAs joining the Trinamool Congress en masse, coupled with losses in by-polls, 2021 turned out to be a dismal year for the Congress, a terrible downslide for a political outfit that had emerged as the single largest party in the 2018 assembly elections. The Congress was forced to make strange bedfellows with rival BJP as what remained of
The NPP, after pocketing seats in Meghalaya, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh in the respective last assembly elections, has catapulted itself into being the first and only national party based out of the Northeast.
The outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) has claimed responsibility of planting the bomb as a mark of protest against the killing of their leader Cheristerfield Thangkhiew in an encounter in August.
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