National People's Party (India)

History

On 6 January 2013, Sangma launched the party at the national level. He announced an alliance with the National Democratic Alliance led by Bharatiya Janta Party. Sangma also reiterated that though the membership of the party was 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.

The National People's Party had appointed Dheeraj Shukla as the District President of NPP, Jaunpur.

NPP contested the assembly election of Rajasthan 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 Democratic Alliance.

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 — Samajwadi Party, Nationalist Congress Party, 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 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.

In May 2016, after the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance formed its first government in Assam, and formed a new alliance called the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) with Himanta Biswa Sarma as its convener. The chief ministers of the northeastern states of Sikkim, Assam, and Nagaland 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 Indian National Congress emerged as the single largest party, NEDA did well in 2023 assembly elections without any pre-poll alliances. The party emerged as the single largest party and 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 Kolkata, the capital of the state. Anish Kr Singh is currently appointed as the State President of NPP West Bengal.

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 Conrad Sangma 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 Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, northern West Bengal and the Northeast India.

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 Conrad Sangma 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 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.

In March 2023, the party emerged as the single largest party and won 26 out of 60 assembly seats in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election 2023 and formed government in the state in coalition with BJP and other parties and party president Conrad Sangma sworn in as Chief Minister of the state.

General election results

State Assembly elections

List of MPs from NPP

Rajya Sabha

Lok Sabha

State Committees

List of NPP State Governments

Meghalaya

References

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