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North East in focus with Purno
The Telegraph | Nishit Dholabhai | New Delhi, June 23:
Presidential candidate P.A. Sangma may not fetch enough votes from the Northeast but the region is willy-nilly drawn into the national political discourse.
However, as Sangma played the tribal card to seek support for his candidature he has brought the issue of representation of tribals from Northeast into the mainstream political discourse.
The last time that anyone contested the presidential polls from the Northeast was late Prof. G.G. Swell from Meghalaya. Before that, it was Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed in 1974 from Assam, who went on to become President.
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