Mukul Sangma sworn-in as Meghalaya Chief Minister -Tuesday March 5,2013
The Congress emerged the
single largest party with 29 seats - two short of a majority in the
60-member house. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which secured two
seats, and 11 independent legislators have extended "unconditional
support" to the Congress.
Mukul Manda Sangma(47) on Tuesday March 5,2013 was sworn-in as the Meghalaya chief minister for the second time in a row by Governor RS Mooshahary administered the oath of office, on the lawns of the Raj Bhavan.
Mukul Sangma took oath as
the state's 26th chief minister in the presence of hundreds of Congress
legislators, leaders of other political groupings and senior government
officials.
Profile -Mukul Sangma
- Mukul Sangma, a medical
practitioner, gave up his government job as medical and health officer
in Tura health centre and plunged into the electoral fray in 1993 and contested and won the Ampatigiri assembly constituency in West Garo Hills as an independent candidate.
- At the age of 33, Mukul
Sangma bagged a cabinet berth and held various posts as minister of
taxation, information and public relations and others.
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In 2005, he was appointed deputy chief minister in-charge of home and education departments
Mukul Sangma first assumed office April 20, 2010, replacing veteran Congress leader DD Lapang.
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