Meghalaya Assembly Speaker accepts merger of Congress legislator to NPP

Shillong, July 30 -- Congress, which ruled Meghalaya for over three decades, has been wiped out of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. Thanks to the latest switching sides of the lone Congress legislator Ronnie Lyngdoh quitting the party and joining the ruling National People's Party (NPP) today.



Lyngdoh, also the Opposition Chief Whip, met Speaker Thomas Sangma in the assembly secretariat and handed him his letter of merger to NPP, which Sangma had accepted.



"I have accepted the merger and recognised Ronnie Lyngdoh as a member of the NPP with immediate effect after we found his application valid under the provisions of the 10th Schedule of the Constitution. Lyngdoh is now a member of the National People's Party with immediate e...