Rio, Sangma rush to Delhi
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Shillong/Dimapur, May 17 2014 :
The two elected members of North East Regional Parties Front (NERPF) have arrived New Delhi this evening.
PA Sangma and Neiphiu Rio have just arrived New Delhi, aides of Sangma and Rio informed Newmai News Network this evening over phone.
PA Sangma got elected from Tura Lok Sabha seat of Meghalaya from the National People's Front (NPP) by a margin of over 40,000 votes while Neiphiu Rio won the lone Lok Sabha seat of Nagaland by a huge margin of over 4 lakh votes from the Naga People's Front (NPF) .
Meanwhile, sources said both the leaders are vying for Union ministerial berths.
Former Union minister and PA Sangma's daughter Agatha Sangma had told NNN yesterday that her father was not lobbying for the ministerial berth as such at the moment.
Both NPP and NPF are units of NERPF.
It is simply logic that it is next to impossible that the BJP or NDA will allot two ministerial berths to the NERPF.
Two months ago, Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi had assured Rio of 'awarding' a Union ministerial berth for decimating the Congress in Nagaland.
BJP National vice president Bijoya Chakraborty had also assured Neiphiu Rio of giving a Ministerial berth in the event of NDA coming to power.