Persevering with its string of successes, the Voice of the Individuals’s Occasion has swept the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council polls held final week and has unseated the Nationwide Individuals’s Occasion.
Whereas the VPP received 17 out of 29 seats within the KHADC within the tribal council polls held final week, the NPP – which leads the state’s NDA authorities – has emerged as the only largest celebration within the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council (JHADC) election. The VPP has received the second highest variety of seats within the JHADC.
There are three autonomous district councils in Meghalaya below the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Structure: the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council, the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council and the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council. Final week, elections have been held to the KHADC and the JHADC, the outcomes for which have been declared Monday.
Within the KHADC, the VPP received 17 out of 29 seats, regional celebration United Democratic Occasion received 5 seats, the NPP received 4, the Hill State Individuals’s Democratic Occasion received one, and two Independents received. The Congress has drawn a clean.
Within the JHADC, the NPP received 13 seats, the VPP eight, the UDP and Congress three seats every and two Independents received. Though NPP emerged as the only largest celebration, it nonetheless fell in need of the midway mark of 15.
The BJP, nevertheless, was not capable of win a single seat in both of the tribal councils, persevering with its troublesome run within the state. It has solely two seats of the 60 within the Meghalaya legislative meeting however is a part of the federal government led by its ally NPP.
The VPP – which was based in 2021 – has emerged as a regional pressure in Meghalaya’s Khasi hills over time. After profitable 4 seats in its electoral debut within the 2023 Meghalaya legislative meeting election, it had pulled off an enormous win final yr by profitable the Shillong Lok Sabha seat in a landslide victory.
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