For Congress, Manipur Polls A Fight For Survival In Northeast

Guwahati:

The meeting elections in Manipur are a make-or-break deal for the Congress. The polls will resolve no longer most effective the party’s survival within the state, however may just additionally provide a revival alternative within the Northeast. The Northeast used to be as soon as a stronghold of the Congress, however the BJP has snatched regulate within the remaining Five years.  

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday visited Imphal to improve the party’s marketing campaign. That is the primary that the party is not contesting on all 60 seats in Manipur. The Congress has shaped a grand alliance, referred to as the Manipur Revolutionary Secular Alliance, with six political events together with the Left. The alliance comprises Congress, CPI, CPM, RSP, Ahead Block and the Janata Dal Secular.

Manipur will vote in two levels – on February 28 and March 5 – because the elections are held for the 60-member state meeting. The counting of votes will happen on March 10.

Within the 2017 state elections, Congress had emerged because the single-largest party by means of profitable 28 seats. A number of leaders, alternatively, later give up the party. Later, the BJP which had 21 seats controlled to shape the federal government with Nongthongbam Biren Singh because the Leader Minister in an alliance with 3 regional events – Naga Folks’s Entrance (NPF) Nationwide Peoples Party (NPP), the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), Impartial candidate, or even a former Congress MLA. Over the last 5 years or so, 13 Congress MLAs have converted to BJP.

5 of the eight states within the Northeast had a Congress govt in 2015. However Congress has misplaced all states to BJP and its allies, and lately are the key Opposition party in simply two states.

Any other problem for Congress could be to search out the following era of leaders who can sway electorate. Ibobi Singh, 73, continues to be the face of Congress in Manipur. Many ponder whether those will be the remaining elections of the three-time Leader Minister.