2018 Meghalaya Assembly Election Feb 27,2018 - Newly elected MLAs to take oath at special assembly session on Wednesday March 07,2018

 

The newly elected MLAs of Meghalaya will take oath during a special one-day assembly session on Wednesday March 07,2018, assembly commissioner and secretary Andrew Simons said here on Monday March 05,2018
“A one-day special session of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly will be held on March 7 at 10 am, where the newly elected MLAs will take oath before Protem Speaker at the Assembly chamber,” Simons said in a statement.

Meghalaya threw up a fractured mandate on Saturday March 03,2018 with the ruling Congress emerging as the largest party, marginally ahead of its rival, the NPP, an ally of the BJP at the Centre and in Manipur.

The Congress bagged 21 seats in the 60-member Assembly, eight less than the last elections.

The NPP came second with 19 seats in its kitty.

 

The BJP, which drew a blank in the last elections, got two seats.

The United Democratic Party (UDP) won six seats while its alliance partner the HSPDP won two seats.

The People’s Democratic Front (PDF) bagged four seats, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) and three Independents got one seat each