The National People's Party is a national

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in India. It is mostly concentrated in

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. Founded by P. A. Sangma after his expulsion from the NCP in July 2012, it was accorded national party status on 7 June 2019. It is the first political party from North-Eastern India to have attained this status.

History

On 6 January 2013, P. A. Sangma launched the party at the national level. He announced an alliance with the

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led by Bharatiya Janta Party. Sangma also reiterated that though the membership of the party is open to all, it shall be a tribal centric party. Sangma is a nine-time Member of Parliament. In July 2012, he refused to accept the party's decision to quit the 2012 Indian presidential election. NPP contested the assembly election of

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in December 2013, under the leadership of Kirodi Lal Meena, a former BJP member and MP (Independent from Dausa) at the time of election and won four seats. Currently, it is a part of North-East Democratic Alliance consisting of political parties of the northeast which has supported the

. National People's Party,

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is the state unit of the National People's Party in the Indian state of

. The party's headquarters is located in

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, the capital of the state. Dinesh Chaurasiya is currently appointed as the State President of NPP

. In 2015, in a rare move election commission suspended NPP for its failure to provide the party's expenditure during the Lok Sabha Elections held in 2014. NPP became first party to get suspended by EC. In September 2015, the leaders of six parties —

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, Jan Adhikar Party, Samras Samaj Party, National People's Party and Samajwadi Janata Party – announced the formation of a third front known as the Socialist Secular Morcha ahead of the

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. Dheeraj Shukla has been appointed as the District President of National People's Party in Jaunpur District,

. In May 2016, after the

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led

formed its first government in

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, and formed a new alliance called the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) with

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as its convener. The chief ministers of the northeastern states of

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, Assam, and

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too belong to this alliance. Thus, the National People's Party joined the NEDA. The NPP contested nine candidates in the 2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election and won four seats. They won 19 seats in the 2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, although the ruling Indian National Congress emerged as the single largest party, NEDA did well in 2023 assembly elections without any pre-poll alliances. The party won 26 seats, and formed a government supported by BJP and other NEDA members. On 6 May 2023, the People's Democratic Front party merged with the National People's Party. National People's Party, West Bengal, is the state unit of the National People's Party in the Indian state of West Bengal. The party's headquarters is located in

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, the capital of the state. Anish Kr Singh is currently appointed as the State President of NPP

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Election symbol

Its election symbol is a book. The significance for the same is that the party believes that only literacy and education can empower the weaker sections.

Key Leaders

Electoral performance

The party won a seat in 2014 Loksabha elections from Tura and Sangma became MP ones again. After the death of P. A. Sangma in 2016, his son

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won a by-election held in May 2016 fo fill this seat. The party had proposed to contest election and expand its base in tribal constituencies of

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, northern

and the

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. In March 2018, the party won 19 out of 60 assembly seats in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election 2018 and formed government in the state in coalition with BJP and other parties and party president

sworn in as Chief Minister of the state. In May 2018, the party won Williamnagar Assembly seat in a by-election making its tally to 20 out of 60 assembly seats in

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General election results

State Assembly elections

List of MPs from NPP

Lok Sabha

Rajya Sabha

State Committees

List of NPP State Governments

Meghalaya

References

External links

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Tura lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule
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