: Toppling of Uddhav govt brings back memories of BJP manoeuvres in NE #IndiaNEWS #National,Politics By Sujit ChakrabortyImphal/Itanagar, July 17 (IANS) The recent collapse of the 31-month-old Shiv

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By Sujit ChakrabortyImphal/Itanagar, July 17 (IANS) The recent collapse of the 31-month-old Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi government headed by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in Maharastra, reminded of political developments in two northeastern states Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, where the BJP formed the governments through political jugglery.
Political pundits observed that the BJP aiming to make the northeast region a Congress Mukt (Congress free) political bastion, is now running governments in four of the eight northeastern states Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.
In the remaining four states the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners the National Peoples Party heads the government in Meghalaya and the Mizo National Front (MNF) in Mizoram.
While the BJP with two MLAs is a partner in the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, the saffron party has a solitary legislator in Mizoram and is not allied with the MNF government.
The BJP with 12 MLAs is an ally of Nagalands United Democratic Alliance (UDA) in which the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) is the dominant party of the UDA, which is an all-party alliance governing Indias first opposition-less state.
Another NDA ally, the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha runs the government in Sikkim. The SKM has 19 MLAs in the 32-member Sikkim legislative assembly and the BJP 12.
The BJP, in the February-March elections, had secured a thin majority of 32 MLAs in the 60-member Manipur Assembly and like neighbouring Assam, returned to power for a second consecutive term. The party wrested power in the northeastern state in 2017 despite not securing an absolute majority.
In the 2017 assembly polls, the Congress had become the single largest party by bagging 28 of the 60 seats while the BJP had won 21, but the saffron party managed to cobble up the numbers as some Congress MLAs defected and facilitated the BJP to form the government.
The BJP had also managed the support of four National Peoples Party (NPP) members, four Naga Peoples Front (NPF) MLAs, the lone Trinamool Congress MLA and an Independent member to cross the magic figure of 31 in the 60-member House.
The NPP, a national political party, is headed by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma.
In 2016, after a series of political developments a BJP government was formed in Arunachal Pradesh after 33 out of the 43 Peoples Party of Arunachal (PPA) MLAs led by Chief Minister Pema Khandu joined the saffron party.
Khandu broke away from the Congress along with 42 lawmakers in September 2016 for the PPA and then the BJP.
The border state has been struggling with political instability since December 2015 when Congress dissidents revolted against former Chief Minister Nabam Tuki.

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