Meghalaya Prime Minister and National Chairman of the National People’s Party (PNP), Conrad K Sangma, said on Sunday that the Northeast can become an ‘economic and political superpower’ if people and states in the region can come together and the PNP provides the platform.
CM Conrad, who arrived in Imphal from New Delhi on Saturday, was addressing party workers in the Wangoi assembly constituency in Manipur’s Imphal West district in connection with the upcoming proposed by-elections in the state.
Asking party workers to work hard to pressure all voters to vote for the party, he said: “The time is coming for the PNP to lead, so the 2022 elections are very important. We must all work together because that is what the people of Manipur want and they are all looking to the PNP to provide leadership. “
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“Not only in the state of Manipur, but also throughout the Northeast today because of the kind of courage and kind of vision that we stand for, which is to unite the people of the Northeast and show that if the people and states of the Northeast can come together and the PNP can provide the platform, our region can be an economic and political superpower, “he added.
The national head of the PNP, who arrived to inaugurate a new office of the PNP state unit in Imphal on Saturday, is also confident that party candidate Khuraijam Loken Singh, who lost his seat in the Wangoi assembly constituency to the Congressional candidate O Lukhoi by a margin of just 36 votes in the 2017 assembly elections will win this time considering the ongoing political dynamics in the constituency.
Manipur Senior Deputy Minister Yumnam Joykumar Singh, led by PNP leaders, also spoke during the day’s meeting in Wangoi, which was attended by Ministers L Jayantakumar (Family Health and Welfare), N Kayisii (Tribal and Mountain Area Development , fishing), who is the acting president of the PNP state unit, and others.
In the 2017 elections, the NPP, which became a national party in June 2019, won four seats in the state assembly of 60. The four NPP legislators are ministers of the BJP-led government in the state.
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