While Manipur’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership has flown to Delhi to lay rival claims to the position of Chief Minister of the State, National People’s Party (NPP) leader and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, who had earlier flown to Imphal to seek a place for his party in the government to be formed, seems miffed by hints that the BJP will go ahead and form a single-party government in Manipur. Mr. Sangma said he would “examine” the situation if his party was not invited to join the government.
Manipur’s caretaker Chief Minister N. Biren Singh as well as former Works Minister Th. Biswajit Singh, who is being seen by many as a potential candidate for the chief ministerial chair, had flown to Delhi for consultations with the BJP’s top leadership on Tuesday. BJP State unit chief A. Sharda Devi too is in Delhi ahead of the formation of the new government in the State.
While the BJP won a simple majority in the House by securing 32 of 60 seats in the Manipur Assembly, results to which were announced last week, the NPP too did creditably, winning seven seats.
