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
People for Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA) India has selected Meghalaya forest and environment minister James Sangma for its Progressive Business Concept Award for his initiative to encourage farmers to go for leather production from pineapples. The move would lessen leather production from animals, protect animals and the environment, according to PETA.
Earlier the minister said that the state is also trying to study the properties of the pineapple with the aim to produce vegan leather out of the fruit.