Key Highlights :
1. The National People's Party (NPP) won 26 seats in the Meghalaya assembly polls.
2. The NPP won 18 seats in the Garo hills.
3. The Conrad Sangma led National People's Party (NPP) will take oath on March 7 to head the government for a second consecutive term.
4. The NPP had won 19 seats in the last election and led the six-party coalition of Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) with BJP as a partner.
5. Most political parties had engaged professional consultants to optimise their presence in the hill state.
6. Trinamool Congress (TMC) had engaged the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) for campaigning in Meghalaya.
7. Director of Showtime Consulting, Anant Tiwari, who helped Sangma’s NPP told ET, “We started working on the ground in January 2022. Our first task was to understand the electorate, constituencies, leaders and issues.”
8. “Accordingly, a digital ecosystem was planned where best practices of other states suitable for Meghalaya were worked out. Conrad Sangma, owing to his exposures in London and New Delhi, had a broad canvass and accordingly he participated effectively in making strategy,” Tiwari said.
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: The NPP won 26 seats out of which 18 were in Garo hills. Garo hills account for 24 seats in the 60 member Meghalaya assembly polls.
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