Rooting for the second term, Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma, the son of former chief minister and Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma, talks to Outlook on the eve of the state elections
In Assam, which has the strictest law against witch hunting, the practice continues. Some of the victims have made a small hamlet in Goalpara district their home. The locals call it Dainigaon—the witch village
Lieutenant Colonel Amrinder Singh Walia has been arrested for the murder of a 36-year-old woman with whom he was in a relationship, said Hitesh Chandra Roy, Superintendent of Police of Assam’s Kamrup.
Meghalaya is the state that gave the idea of splitting a five year-term between two political parties in alliance with the toss of a coin and also the only one that once chose a Chief Minister by the draw of lots.
Ahead of the crucial Meghalaya elections on February 27, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma speaks to Outlook on several issues ranging from lagging economic affairs of the state to the challenges faced by his National People's Party in state politics.
A massive earthquake in Assam in 1950 triggered long-lasting damage. The following years saw massive floods of greater intensity than usual. While new areas started getting flooded, some of the flood-prone areas started drying up.
It was in Assam where the issue of illegal migration has been a poll plank during every election campaign post-India’s independence. Though Meghalaya is also at the receiving end, the issue has not found much space in the electoral debates of the state until now when TMC is contesting as the principal opposition.
Many voters and Congress supporters have termed the Congress-CPM alliance in Tripura as ‘unholy’. There is a long history of violence between the Congress and CPM as the Congress was the principal Opposition during the 25-year rule of CPM in Tripura.
While people in the state have been voting for one Sangma or the other in the last two elections, they are not too happy about the fact that two politically powerful factions are practically in charge
In their attempt to make inroads into Christian-dominated Nagaland and Meghalaya, the Saffron Brigade is deploying customised winning strategies, even invoking Rani Gaidinliu, the noted Naga freedom fighter
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