Meghalaya : Mukul Sangma resigns from Ampati seats

Mukul Sangma has submitted his resignation letter to Meghalaya Assembly Speaker Donkupar Roy as member of the assembly from Ampati constituency.

Mukul Sangma had won both Ampati and Songsak seats in the recent assembly polls in the state.

After resigning from the Ampati assembly seat, Mukul Sangma is all set to bring another family member in the political sphere.

Mukul Sangma's daughter will contest the by-election of Ampati constituency.

According to the reports, Mukul Sangma has given up the Ampati constituency for making way for his daughter Miani D Shira to enter in politics.

Reports also said that, the new Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma will contest from the constituency which Mukul Sangma will quit.

Conrad Sangma will have to get elected as an MLA to continue his tenure as the Meghalaya CM.

Mukul Sangma had retained his traditional Ampati seat by defeating BJP candidate Bakul Chandra Hajong by 8104 votes and won the constituency as a MLA consecutively for the sixth term.

Earlier, Mukul Sangma’s wife Dikkanchi D Shira had contested in the 2013 assembly polls from Mahendraganj constituency in South West Garo Hills district and elected to the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.

Dikkanchi D Shira also contested against present CM Conrad Sangma in by-election of Tura parliamentary constituency in 2016, but lost.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)