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Meghalaya Assembly Speaker election Sep 13 te thakibo

SHILLONG | September 9, 2019 (IANS): Monday din  house te  Deputy Speaker Timothy D. Shira para khobor dishe ki   Meghalaya Assembly Speaker laga  election toh September 13 te thakibo.

Etu election luwa toh  Assembly Speaker, Donkupar Roy  July 28 te mura nimete luwa ase.  Roy, kun UDP laga president thakishe   tai ke  March 12, 2018 te speaker laga post nimete chunishe.

Ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government khan manishe  incumbent Tourism Minister, Metbah Lyngdoh ke  field kuribole nimete speaker laga post nimete .

Lyngdoh, ekta senior United Democratic Party (UDP) legislator toh  60-member Meghalaya Assembly laga three time member ase.

Tai laga naam toh MDA’s core committee Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong para head kurikena dishe .

Etu 60-member Assembly  59 strength thakikena  National People’s Party kun para etu coalition government  leads kureh tai logote  21 members, United Democratic Party (eight), People’s Democratic Front (four), two members Bharatiya Janata Party aro  Hill State People’s Party para , one member Nationalist Congress Party aro Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement para aro one independent member ase.

Opposition Congress khan manishe  two-time legislator, Winnerson D. Sangma ke field kuribole nimete speaker post nimete .

Speaker’s post laga last election  te opposition laga candidate bi Sangma thakishe hoilebi tai Donkupar Roy kun speaker nimete chunishe  March 2018 tai logote harishe .