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  Meghalaya assembly gets its first non-tribal speaker

  Politics | March 11, 2013 17:21 IST

  Shillong, Mar 11: Abu Taher Mondal was today elected unopposed as Meghalaya Speaker creating history of sorts by becoming the first non-tribal to occupy the post.Mondal, the Congress legislator from Phulbari, was elected unopposed after

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  Congress declares candidates for Meghalaya polls

  Politics | January 07, 2013 6:40 IST

  New Delhi, Jan 7: The Congress Sunday declared its candidates for the upcoming polls to the 60-member Meghalaya assembly.The list, released by party general secretary Oscar Fernandes, has 55 candidates belonging to scheduled tribes.The term

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  Meghalaya NCP wants its rebel legislators disqualified

  Politics | September 28, 2012 22:03 IST

  Shillong, Sep 28: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Friday lodged a complaint with the Meghalaya assembly Speaker Charles Pyngrope seeking disqualification of 11 legislators who had joined P.A. Sangma's National People's Party (NPP).”We have lodged