The Election Commission today issued the notifications for the February twenty-seven Meghalaya Assembly elections. Meghalaya Electoral Officer of, Mr. F R Kharkongor informed that “The Election Commission has given notifications for the elections in the state.” After issuing notification, the BJP today announced its 1st list of forty-five applicants for Meghalaya assembly elections. Assembly polls in the express for all sixty seats are actually slated to be kept on February twenty-seven and the benefits will likely be declared on March three.
The tenure of the present 60-member Meghalaya Assembly finishes on March six as well as the condition will go to the polls on February twenty-seven. With the issuance of the election notification, the filing of today was started by nomination.
The final day of filing nominations is actually February seven while the particular date of scrutiny of nomination is actually February eight. The final day of withdrawal of candidates is actually February twelve.
The list consists of the labels of former Congress minister AL Hek, former NCP state president Sanbor Shullai as well as 8 other former MLAs. “The core election committee (of the BJP) has introduced the very first summary of applicants for the February twenty-seven election,” the party ‘s express product chief Shibun Lyngdoh believed.
He included that the summary of forty-five candidates also provided the names of those that had joined the saffron bash in the state capital on January two – AL Hek, Sanbor Shullai, Robinus Syngkon and Justine Dkhar.
2 females, BJP declare Mahila Morcha president Pelcy Snaitang (from the Ranikor constituency) and Marian Maring (from the Nongpoh constituency in Ri Bhoi district), are usually provided in the list. A few former legislators, who had contested and lost in the last election in 2013 but featured in the list, included R L Tariang, J A Lyngdoh, Phlour Khongjee, John Manner Marak, KC Boro and Billykid Sangma. The next summary of applicants for the remaining fifteen constituencies is actually apt to be out shortly.
Nevertheless, a ticket was denied by the party to state device chief Shibun Lyngdoh’s daughter Violet Lyngdoh in favor of former Parliamentary Secretary Justine Dkhar, who quit the assembly and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Violet Lyngdoh, who’s a sitting part of Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council, is actually set to join the NDA affiliate National People’s Party and stop the election against Dkhar from Khliehriat constituency.
Though Violet was denied a ticket, the BJP has allocated tickets to 2 of the women candidate in the party, Pelcy Snaitang and Marian Maring from Nongpoh and Ranikor assembly constituency, respectively.
Other prominent applicants in the list normally include former Power Minister Riang Lenon Tariang, former Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Billykid Sangma, former Food along with Civil Supplies Minister John Antonius Lyngdoh, former Congress legislator P.W.Khongjee along with former Excise Minister K.C.Boro.
