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LEAD PARTY IN GOVERNMENT

The party having most numbers in the legislative assembly heads the Government, whether it is a single party government or a coalition. This is obvious. Yet the Congress opposition leader, former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, does not seem to be sure. Mukul had raked up a question, whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or the National Peoples Party (NPP), is heading the present new government, which is having a comfortable majority in the house of 60, having an alliance with other like minded regional parties. It is therefore a simple answer, which needs no subtraction, or probable addition. After all , the number game, is the choice of the majority voters in the state, who have clearly voted the NPP as the lead party in the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance Government. So there should be no confusion on the matter. The Speaker had intervened, disallowing discussion on the matter which was irrelevant in the House, which at that time was taking a Confidence motion on the Government, winning by a voice vote.
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total seat of five. Three seats have been won by the ruling coalition candidates, Sosthenes Sohtun in Jirang of the NPP, Jason S. Mawlong of Umsning of the Peoples Democratic Front and Dasakhiat Shisha Lamare , NPP of Mawhati, being the youngest assembly member, son of Ngaitlang Dhar, who was defeated in Umroi constituency by Congress George Bakyntiewlang Lyngdoh. The Congress also bagged the prestigious Nongpoh seat, Mayralborn Syiem, the constituency which D.D. Lapang, held for so long, who did not contest this time. All the winners of Ri Bhoi are first timers. In the Mawhati constituency, Dasakhiat could beat down Julias Kitbok Dorphang , who had contested the election in jail, as he was charged with with a sex scandal offence. Elders of Ri Bhoi belonging to a body of intellectuals, “Ki Khraw Pyrkhat Ri Bhoi" have expressed dismay that non of the ruling members of Ri Bhoi , were given a cabinet berth.