PA Sangma elected as NPP leader
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Imphal, September 15 2012:
Former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A Sangma has been elected as the president of National People's Party (NPP) .
Addressing a press conference today at Manipur Press Club in Imphal, Manipur unit of the NPP V.Hangkhalian announced that P.A Sangma has been a consensus choice for the top post of the party for the tenure of 2012 to 2015 .
According to V Hangkhalian, who is an ex MLA of the Manipur legislative assembly, the NPP was formed way back in 1985.Hangkalian expressed his optimism that the NPP will be able to come up as a national level political party soon.
"Yes, of course it is a national party ," he asserted.
Hangkhalian also said that NPP will open its party headquarter in New Delhi, beside setting up of party offices in Jammu and Kashmir, Jarkhand, Meghalaya and elsewhere in the country.
Meanwhile, the NPP has elected 21 Central Executive Committee members for the tenure of 2012 to 2015 .
The NPP then adopted some resolutions which include that the party will expand throughout the country.
One resolution of the party says that NPP flag shall be that of tri-colour in saffron background with two radials in the centre.
The outer radial shall be in white colour and the inner one shall be in green colour.
The symbol 'book' shall be placed within the green radial.
It can be noted here that former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A Sangma after having had lost the Presidential election to Pranab Mukherjee, had announced to float a tribal centric political party christened as "National Indigenous Party of India" .
Even prior to the Presidential poll, the state of affairs in the NCP set up was already bad.
In the 2011 assembly poll of Assam the party did not fare well and so in the 2012 Manipur assembly election.
Meanwhile, sources said that NPP leader V Hangkhalian had approached P.A Sangma sometimes back and requested him to lead the NPP.