Once a stronghold of the Congress, Northeast India has witnessed many political upheavals post-2014. In Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland, all going to the polls early next year, the Congress had a total of 47 MLAs in the 2013 Assembly elections out of the 180 seats altogether. The number reduced to 21 in 2018, where, other than Meghalaya, in the other two states, the party could not manage to send a single legislator to the assembly.