‘Bangladeshis’ enter Meghalaya polls
The Hindu
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GUWAHATI
The Bangladeshi issue, a staple of elections in Assam, has “infiltrated” poll-bound Meghalaya. Blame it on the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
After failing to make a mark in Goa in 2022, the TMC invested heavily in Meghalaya to establish that it had acceptance beyond West Bengal. It had a reason to; 12 Congress MLAs switched over in November 2021 to make it Meghalaya’s Opposition party overnight.
Four of the MLAs quit ahead of the announcement of the February 27 polls to join other parties, including the TMC’s primary rival, the National People’s Party (NPP). But that apparently did not lessen the threat the party posed in many of the 55 seats it was contesting.
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Meghalaya’s is a 60-member Assembly.
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