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GUWAHATI
Almost 4 years aft switching implicit to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on with 11 different MLAs, Meghalaya’s erstwhile Minister Zenith M. Sangma rejoined the Congress enactment successful the State’s capital, Shillong, connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025).
Although helium mislaid the 2023 Assembly election, Mr. Sangma’s instrumentality to the Congress is considered significant. He is the member of TMC person and erstwhile Chief Minister Mukul M. Sangma, who is 1 of 5 Meghalaya MLAs of the West Bengal-based enactment headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“It was a conscious determination to rejoin Congress, the enactment to which I gave much than 20 years of my governmental career. I felt I needed to fortify the expansive aged enactment to uphold secularism, and combat corruption and ‘jungle raj’, and polarising authorities destroying the societal cloth successful Meghalaya and elsewhere successful the country,” helium told journalists aft joining the Congress with a fewer different leaders.
Mr. Zenith Sangma rejoined the Congress successful the beingness of State enactment president Vincent H. Pala, and the All India Congress Committee person in-charge of Meghalaya A. Chellakumar.
“Congress is the lone enactment that promotes secularism. If Congress becomes weak, nine becomes weak. It is precocious clip for radical successful Meghalaya and beyond to travel backmost to Congress and enactment together,” Mr. Pala said.
Meghalaya TMC president and MLA Charles Pyngrope accepted Mr. Sangma’s resignation missive connected Tuesday (October 28).
A elder person of the enactment said that the TMC was showing signs of disintegration successful Meghalaya arsenic its cardinal enactment had virtually abandoned it aft the 2023 Assembly predetermination loss. “Issues and concerns raised by america are not reaching the West Bengal Chief Minister and different enactment leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee,” helium said, declining to beryllium quoted.
There is speculation that the TMC whitethorn not person immoderate MLAs near successful the State arsenic Meghalaya approaches the 2028 Assembly election.
