By winning the Williamnagar Assembly by poll, the NPP has now equalled the number of MLAs (20) that the main opposition party Congress has in the Meghalaya Assembly.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP president Amit Shah were present during the oath-taking ceremony of the National People's Party (NPP)-led government.
The Congress chief alleged that the BJP is "obsessed" with "grabbing" power and has shown "utter disregard" to the mandate of people in Meghalaya.
Conrad Sangma said the swearing-in of the new ministers would take place tomorrow.
"If we have given a list of 34 supporting candidates, how can our claim be unconstitutional? allegations of horsetrading are completing unfounded," Conrad told India TV on Sunday night.
The swearing in ceremony is slated to be held at 10:30 am on March 6. While Conrad Sangma will be taking oath as Meghalaya Chief Minister, there would be no Deputy CM in the new government.
Currently serving as an MP from Meghalaya’s Tura, Sangma started his political career in 2008 when he was elected to Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.
Claiming support of 34 MLAs, Conrad Sangma submitted the letter of support to the Meghalaya Governor and staked claim to form the Government
Congress emerged as the single largest party in a hung assembly in Meghalaya. But the chances are that BJP will pull another Goa and Manipur to facilitate the formation of non-Congress government.
Riding on Saturday's electoral victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah told BJP workers that their goal now should be to capture power in Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal and Odisha.
Polling for 59 Assembly seats, out of a total of 60, was held on February 27. A Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate was killed in an IED blast, which resulted in countermanding of the polls in one seat.
The BJP wrested Tripura, the last Left bastion, and received invitation to be part of the government in Nagaland, while Meghalaya elected a hung Assembly.
In remarks laced with sarcasm, Modi said he had recently told Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy that the Congress leader was lucky as he will soon become a "specimen of a Congress chief minister".
Terming the party's victory in Tripura as "historic", Amit Shah said the people of northeast have put their seal of approval on the policies of the Prime Minister.
In its 25 years of rule in Tripura, the Left front has ensured harmony among all sections of people and given them good governance, and there are no allegations against it, D Raja said.
It is the victory Modi Government's achievements at the centre and the strategies and election management of party president Amit Shah and hard work of party workers, Yogi Adityanath said.
In a series of tweets on the outcome of assembly polls in Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya, he said the victory of the BJP in Tripura is not an ordinary electoral victory.
PM Narendra Modi said his party's historic victory in Tripura is "as much an ideological one". He thanked the people of Nagaland for supporting BJP and its allies.
A jubilant Amit Shah said the BJP's golden era would be when its wrests West Bengal, Odisha and Karnataka from rival parties.
The poll outcome in the north eastern states will have serious repercussions in national politics, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
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