New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Chief Ministers of Meghalaya and Nagaland – Conrad Sangma and Neiphiu Rio – at Shillong and Kohima, respectively, on March 7.
PM Modi will visit Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura and Assam for two days.
The BJP will be part of the Ministries in three states. In Meghalaya, the saffron party won two seats, and its legislator and five-time MLA Alexander Laloo Hek are likely to be in the ministry.
Other regional parties, UDP and HSPDP, will also be part of the ministry. This is the second term that Conrad Sangma, son of former Lok Sabha Speaker Late P A Sangma, will be sworn in as Chief Minister heading the NPP-led coalition regime.
After attending the oath-taking ceremony at Shillong, PM Modi will arrive at Nagaland’s capital, Kohima. Neiphiu Rio will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Nagaland for the fifth term at the Capital Cultural Hall, Kohima, in the afternoon.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President J P Nadda, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh,
Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang and Union Minister of State Ramdas Athawale are likely to attend the ceremony at Kohima. Athawale-led RPI-A won two seats in Nagaland.
The NDPP- BJP alliance won a thumping majority of 37 seats in the 60-member Assembly. The BJP won 12 out of 20 seats it contested, and NDPP won 25 out of 40 seats where it fielded its nominees.
In Nagaland, this will be the second consecutive term for NDPP- BJP alliance to form the Government.
PM Modi will fly to Guwahati in the evening and halt for the night. He may visit Kamakhya temple also.
PM Modi is also scheduled to attend a cabinet meeting of the Assam Government during his stay and then go to Tripura capital Agartala on March 8 to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the BJP-led Ministry in the State.
The BJP won 32 seats in the 60-member house, and its ally IPFT won 1. In 2018 the saffron party successfully ousted the CPI-M from the seat of power in the State, which was once known as a communist bastion. The BJP and its allies winning the polls in three States are considered significant in terms of political discourse vis-a-vis the fast-approaching parliamentary polls in 2024 and also State assembly polls in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Telangana later this year.
Polls in Karnataka are due by April-May.
