{"id":301857,"date":"2018-08-27T07:18:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301857"},"modified":"2018-08-27T07:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:18:49","slug":"meghalaya-assembly-bypoll-result-cm-conrad-k-sangma-wins-south-tura-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/meghalaya-assembly-bypoll-result-cm-conrad-k-sangma-wins-south-tura-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya assembly bypoll result: CM Conrad K Sangma wins South Tura seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301858 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sangma-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/sangma-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/sangma-457x420.jpg 457w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/sangma.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>Meghalaya Chief Minister and National People&#8217;s Party (NPP) president Conrad K Sangma on Monday, won the South Tura by-election after defeating his nearest Congress rival Charlotte W Momin by over 8,400 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Conrad K Sangma contested from the South Tura seat as the ruling National People&#8217;s Party (NPP) candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National People&#8217;s Party has leveled its tally at 20 with the opposition Congress in the 60-member Meghalaya Assembly by Sangma\u2019s win. The National People&#8217;s Party (NPP) is heading a six-party Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the NPP president secured a total of 13,656 votes of the 22,200 plus total votes polled in South Tura.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The United Democratic Party Candidate Pious Marwein is leading over NPP candidate Martin M Danggo by over 3,390 votes in the Ranikor Assembly seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bypoll in Ranikor was necessitated after Former Congress MLA Martin M Danggo, who was elected on a Congress ticket for the fifth time in March, resigned in June this year to join the ruling NPP.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghalaya Chief Minister and National People&#8217;s Party (NPP) president Conrad K Sangma on Monday, won the South Tura by-election after defeating his nearest Congress rival Charlotte W Momin by over 8,400 votes. Conrad K Sangma contested from the South Tura seat as the ruling National People&#8217;s Party (NPP) candidate. The National People&#8217;s Party has leveled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028,2030,2014],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301859,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301857\/revisions\/301859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}