India, Nov. 2 -- A new political roadmap is being prepared among the states of Northeast India for a new political party. This comes amid a rising demand for regionalism in the Northeast region, with political parties pushing for an alternative even though the NDA has a comfortable majority in the region in the recent Lok Sabha elections. In Assam, the NDA holds 11 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats with a strong presence even in other states of the Northeast, with its regional partners doing much of the legwork vis-a-vis states such as Nagaland.

However, recent instances of partnership instability have cautioned the regional allies into thinking of an alternative. Firstly, in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) region of Assam, NDA ally UPPL w...