First day at work as CM for 2nd term: Conrad Sangma’s mother and wife accompanies him to office

So what he is taking charge as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya for the second term. He too definitely needs his mother’s blessings and his wife’s best wishes.

On day 1 of his second term in office, Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma who took oath for a second term yesterday, shared a picture from his first day in office yesterday (March 7).with his mother Soradini Sangma and wife Mehtab Chandee standing on either side of him.

CM Sangma took to Twitter and wrote, “First day in office as Chief Minister of Meghalaya for the second term next to the pillars of my life.”

National president of the National People’s Party (NPP), Conrad Sangma was sworn in as the 13th Chief Minister of Meghalaya yesterday (March 7 in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Assam CM and NEDA convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma, Sikkim CM PS Tamang, BJP President JP Nadda, and other senior leaders.

Sangma has become the Chief Minister of Meghalaya for a second consecutive term.

He was administered the oath by Governor Phagu Chauhan at the swearing-in ceremony in Shillong along with 11 ministers from alliance partners BJP, HSPDP, UDP, PDF and Independents having a combined strength of 45 in the House of 60.

Conrad, father of two lovely daughters, is fond of singing and playing the guitar. He is once again heading a team of 11 Cabinet ministers— eight from his own party NPP, two from UDP and one each from the BJP and the HSPDP.

The NPP emerged as the single-largest party in Meghalaya winning 26 seats out of the 60 constituencies that went to vote on February 27.

Thirty-one is the number needed to form government in a 60-member Assembly. The number of seats won by NPP, BJP, HSPDP, PDF, UDP and the Independents adds up to 45, comfortable number for the NPP and its allies to form the government.

CM Conrad Sangma contested and won from the South Tura constituency defeating his rival BJP’s Bernard Marak with 10,090 votes.

Son of late PA Sangma, the former Lok Sabha Speaker and a veteran and much respected politician not just of Meghalaya but of entire northeast, Conrad, 45, was Lok Sabha MP (2016-18) from Tura.

He had served as the youngest Finance Minister of Meghalaya in 2008.
A Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and Imperial College, London product, Conrad had started his political career in the late 1990s as campaign manager for his father who was with the NCP then.

He beat allegations of corruption, lack of development, illegal coal trade and ILP issues to win the 2023 polls.

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