NPP gears up for Mizoram polls

SHILLONG: The National People’s Party is getting ready to extend its base to Mizoram, which is the last state in the North East to have a Congress government.
NPP national president and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma informed on Thursday that the party “intends to contest the upcoming Mizoram election, the groundwork for which started a year and a half ago”.
“A lot of work has been done by the party in that state,” he added.
Mizoram will go to polls by the end of this year.
Sangma said the party’s decision  to extend its presence in Mizoram was in line with the vision of late PA Sangma so that NPP becomes a platform for the region.
The NPP chief, who met a few party leaders from Mizoram in Shillong, said some leaders had come to meet him to discuss the political developments in the state.
In the last Mizoram state election in 2013, the Congress had won 34 out of 40 seats in the Assembly while the Mizo National Front got only five.
“As a political party we have been working for almost a year and a half and a lot of groundwork has been done and hopefully we will start the office of the NPP within this month,” Sangma said.