Manipur CM Biren Singh’s failures were trigger, but Conrad Sangma’s NPP had bigger reasons to dump BJP
New Delhi: The National People’s Party’s (NPP) decision to pull out of the N. Biren Singh government has come in the backdrop of the fresh violence in Manipur, but a large section of the party had been pushing its president to bite the bullet for more than a year now.
Announcing the NPP’s exit to BJP national president J.P. Nadda Sunday, NPP president Conrad Sangma underlined that the government “under the leadership of Shri Biren Singh has completely failed to resolve the crisis and restore normalcy” in Manipur.
The Manipur conflict has been raging on for over one-and-a-half years now.
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Sources told ThePrint that Conrad Sangma, who is the chief minister of Meghalaya, has been mulling the decision but putting it off due to an internal rift ove...