Month: February 2013
28 MLAs bite the dust
SHILLONG, FEB 28: Twenty eight sitting legislatorsfrom different political partiesdidn’t make it to the ninth Meghalaya legislative assembly. Prominent among them are assembly speaker and[more...]
Women: The fantastic four
SHILLONG, FEB 28: Four women candidates who all are incidentally from the Congress party have been elected to the assembly. Four legislators are the highest[more...]
Upbeat Cong all set to form govt
SHILLONG, FEB 28: An upbeat Congress is all set to form the next government as it swept the Meghalaya assembly poll by clinching twenty-nine of[more...]
Purno biggest loser
SHILLONG, FEB 28: The biggest loserin the2013 Meghalaya assembly election is the PA Sangma led National People’s Party (NPP) as it was almost wiped out[more...]
Of vanquished leaders and a rising son
SHILLONG, FEB 28: Meghalaya assembly speaker and Congress candidate Charles Pyngrope, Opposition leader and NPP leader Conrad Sangma and Meghalaya deputy chief minister and United[more...]
CM, wife Dikkanchi wins comfortably
SHILLONG, FEB 28: Meghalaya chief minister and Congress candidate Mukul Sangma retained his Ampati seat and his wife Dikkanchi Momin, who contested the election for[more...]
Congress clinches 8 seats, HSPDP 2
SHILLONG, FEB 28: Three Congress ministers HDR Lyngdoh, Ampareen Lyngdoh and Prestone Tynsong have retained their seats and won beating their rivals. A new entrant to[more...]
Congress clinches 3 seats in Garo hills
SHILLONG, FEB 28: The Congress won the third seats when its candidate Cherak Momin clinched the Kharkutta seats in the East Garo hills district. Sitting[more...]