National People’s Party sets its sights on Nagaland
The Hindu
After its improved performance in the recent Assembly poll in Manipur, the party seeks to be the voice of the northeast
The National People’s Party (NPP), hopeful of retaining power in home turf Meghalaya, has set its sights on Nagaland in the bid to be “voice of the northeast”.
The Assembly elections in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura are due by February 2023.
The party, headed by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma feels that its improved electoral show in the adjoining Manipur will spill over to Nagaland, where it had debuted with two seats in 2018. Tripura is not on its radar now.
The NPP replaced the Congress to become the principal opposition party in Manipur after the Assembly elections in February-March this year. It won seven seats, three more than in 2017.
Although its two MLAs defected to the regional Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), the NPP believes its brand of “development-oriented politics” has been attracting people ahead of the State polls. It has started the groundwork, grooming leaders for the “change Nagaland needs”.
The NDPP heads the coalition government in Nagaland with the Bharatiya Janata Party as a partner. The BJP is an ally of the NPP in Meghalaya.
Andrew Ahoto Sema, the NPP’s Nagaland president said his party has been keeping a low profile. “Our election-related activities will be visible from September-October. The people realise the NPP is a sleeping lion that can give the scope to develop,” he said.
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