Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma today attended the NDA Chief Ministers’ Council meeting in Chandigarh.
The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. BJP president J P Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh were also present.
17 chief ministers and 18 deputy chief ministers of NDA-ruled states took part in the meeting. This was the first meeting of NDA chief ministers of this kind in the last many years.
The meeting was held in the afternoon after the swearing-in ceremony of Nayab Singh Saini as the Haryana chief minister for the second consecutive term.
There are 13 chief ministers and 16 deputy CMs belonging to the BJP while chief ministers of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Sikkim, Nagaland and Meghalaya are from its allies.
Meanwhile, Sangma today attended the swearing in of Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini in Chandigarh.
Sangma was among six chief ministers of the North East who attended the meeting who included Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Manipur chief minister Biren Singh, Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu and Tripura chief minister Manik Saha.