: BJP, Congress likely to change Nagaland and Meghalaya chiefs #IndiaNEWS #National <br>Both the BJP and the Congress stand on different platforms in the region vis-a-vis their histories and future

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BJP, Congress likely to change Nagaland and Meghalaya chiefs #IndiaNEWS #National
<br>Both the BJP and the Congress stand on different platforms in the region vis-a-vis their histories and future roadmaps. The Congress, which had a golden past, is now struggling for very existence while the saffron outfit now basking at the new found glories still have good and old as well as new challenges.
For BJP, the immediate reactions from the mandate could be mixed. They could return to power in all three states but the performance from Meghalaya would force it to go back to the drawing room. In Tripura, the smartest of moves that actually helped the saffron partys return to power in the onetime red bastion was the decision to replace former Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. The delay in removing Deb, a man with a lacklustre performance record, almost cost the Lotus party the state where by great difficulties it could oust the Marxists in 2018. Manik Saha had replaced Deb only May 15, 2022.
In Meghalaya, probably there is a realisation now that BJPs present chief Ernest Mawrie should have been replaced long back. Mawrie is more famous for displaying immaturity and making unnecessary remarks in the media than working at the organisational level. Even after the debacle, as BJP could win only two seats out of 60 it contested, Mawrie is blaming the high command for interference.
Mawrie does not know how the BJP functions. He is behaving like a regional party leader and at best as a Congressman. He enjoys making statements against senior colleagues and to remain in headlines, a key party leader told IANS on the condition of anonymity.
Sources said the BJPs central leadership had their choice of candidates including Shillong North K. Kharkrang (a former IPS officer) only on three seats out of 60 while for the remaining 57 seats, the state unit was given a free hand. This school of thought suggests that Mawrie himself lost and so he should resign on moral ground.
Similar stories are emerging from Congress camps both in Nagaland and Meghalaya. The Congress high command may soon take a final call on the tenure of two state units presidents in Nagaland and Meghalaya K. Therie and H. Vincent Pala respectively. Both the leaders lost the just concluded assembly polls. While Therie lost in Dimapur I to Tovihoto Ayemi of BJP, for his part Pala in Meghalaya lost to NPP candidate Santa Mary Shylla.
At times in such cases the pradesh Congress chiefs resign. There is no hard and fast rule. Decisions are taken ultimately at political levels in various stages, a Congress source said. <br> <br>The Congress could not open its account in Nagaland (like in 2018) and in Meghalaya it could win only 5 seats a drop of 16 seats from its 2018 tally.

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