The National People’s Party (NPP), led by Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma, is hopeful of winning 10 Lok Sabha seats in the Northeast, including five in Assam.
Talking to reporters in Guwahati, NPP Assam convenor Dilip Borah on Monday said the party would contest all the 25 seats in the Northeast. “We will win 10 seats in the Northeast. In Assam, we will win five seats,” Borah said.
Conrad recently opened the party’s Assam unit here.
Borah said the process of selecting candidates is on and the party would publish the list of candidates by March 22 or 23.
The election for the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam will be held in three phrases — April 11, 18 and 23.
Borah said a united Northeast, infrastructure development, proper implementation of the Act East Policy, development connectivity in the region, development of health care and unemployment will be some of the major poll planks of the party. It will also tell voters about its anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Bill stand.
Borah, who had joined the AGP after retirement from police service before switching to the NPP, said regional political parties here are “confined” and some of them are “community based”.
“The NPP is working for a united Northeast. We are trying to create a platform for that. There is no doubt that we may face some problem. But we will overcome that,” he said.
Borah said the NPP would contest the election alone although it would go for post-poll alliance to form a government in the Centre.