Shillong (Meghalaya ), March 22: The BJP on Friday announced its support to the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) in Meghalaya for both Shillong and Tura Lok Sabha seats in the state.
The BJP will also support Naga People’s Front (NPF) in one of the two parliamentary constituencies in Manipur in the upcoming general election.
In Nagaland, BJP will also support the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), the ruling party in Nagaland, in the lone Lok Sabha seat in the state.
The BJP in-charge for the northeastern region, Sambit Patra, made the announcement on X.
“As per the instructions of BJP president J P Nadda ji, I am pleased to inform that BJP will extend its support to Lok Sabha candidates of NPP in both the seats of Meghalaya (Shillong and Tura), to NPF in the Outer Manipur constituency and to NDPP in Nagaland in the ensuing parliamentary elections 2024,” Patra said in a post on the microblogging platform.
The BJP is a partner in the NPP-led government in Meghalaya and the regional party had earlier declared candidates for the two Lok Sabha seats in the state.
State Health Minister Dr .Ampareen Lyngdoh is contesting from the Shillong Lok Sabha seat, currently held by Congress’s Vincent Pala, while sitting NPP MP Agatha Sangma, the sister of NPP chief and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, will contest from the Tura Lok Sabha seat.
BJP had unsuccessfully contested the two seats in Meghalaya and one seat in Manipur in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The NPF and the NDPP had won the seats on which the BJP had extended support to them in 2019. The NPP had won one of the two seats in Meghalaya.
