Chief Minister Conrad Sangma today said that the National People’s Party (NPP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are not ideologically on the same page on various issues and hence will not forge an alliance with it in the upcoming assembly elections in the state.
Sangma however said that the party will continue to remain in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre.
“We are not going to contest next assembly elections in alliance with anyone, including the BJP,” the NPP president told reports after a national committee meeting held at the Constitution of India Club in New Delhi.
Sangma said the NPP has never had any pre-poll alliance with any party in any state, and underlined that the party would also contest the upcoming assembly polls in Odisha and Chhattisgarh on its own.
On TMC’s entry in Meghalaya, Sangma said that they have captured the space of the opposition but it has created further fraction within its own party.
“TMC had entered Meghalaya and is trying to create noise but it is not simple that by massive publicity they would make any impact,” he added.
During the national committee meeting, the decision to form different committees to further strengthens the party ahead of the upcoming elections in Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland.
The NPP had fought the 2018 assembly polls in Meghalaya alone. However, the party, which came second to Congress, entered into an alliance with the BJP to form government in the state.
With two legislators, the BJP is a minor ally in the NPP-led government in Meghalaya since 2018.
