Rooting for the second term, Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma, the son of former chief minister and Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma, talks to Outlook on the eve of the state elections
Syeda Ambia Zahan
Editor
In Assam, which has the strictest law against witch hunting, the practice continues. Some of the victims have made a small hamlet in Goalpara district their home. The locals call it Dainigaon—the witch village
While people in the state have been voting for one Sangma or the other in the last two elections, they are not too happy about the fact that two politically powerful factions are practically in charge
In their attempt to make inroads into Christian-dominated Nagaland and Meghalaya, the Saffron Brigade is deploying customised winning strategies, even invoking Rani Gaidinliu, the noted Naga freedom fighter
The upcoming Assembly election is crucial for hundreds of villages in Meghalaya that fall in the coal belt. Thousands of people in the East Jaintia Hills, West Khasi Hills and West Jaintia Hills were dependent on the coal mining deposits found along the Southern fringe of the Shillong plateau.
The northeastern states have produced some of the finest sportswomen. Yet they continue to struggle for amenities
Eviction and harassment of minority community, who are Muslims of Bengali origin, in Assam continues unabated and unchallenged as the ruling BJP compares its eviction drives as the ‘Last Battle of Saraighat’
For the vocal Dalit leader and incumbent MLA from Vadgam constituency, politics is an expansion of his activism and a tool to reach out to the poor and the marginalised with the power of an elected representative
Reduced to almost a non-existent political entity as the BJP made inroads into the Northeast region by forging winning alliances, a moribund Congress is leaving no stone unturned to make it happen in three states of Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland
To make inroads into the Northeast, BJP has customised plans that take into account local culture, ethnicity, religions and languages of the eight states of the region
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