Manipur sports minister Letpao Haokip joins BJP

Prabin Kalita / TNN / Dec 29, 2021, 14:58 IST

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Ahead of the assembly elections scheduled for 2020, Manipur youth affairs and sports minister Letpao Haokip on Wednesday left the National People’s Party and joined Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).

Manipur sports minister Letpao Haokip joins BJP

Letpao Haokip, who had won from Chandel constituency in 2017 on NPP ticket, joined BJP in New Delhi. (ANI photo)

GUWAHATI: Ahead of the assembly elections scheduled for 2020, Manipur youth affairs and sports minister Letpao Haokip on Wednesday left the National People’s Party and joined Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).
NPP, which is led by Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma, together with Naga People’s Front (NPP), Lok Janashakti Party (LJP), TMC had helped BJP form its first government in the state in 2017 by stitching an alliance.

Haokip, who had won from Chandel constituency in 2017 on NPP ticket, joined BJP in New Delhi where he said that “under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi the northeast region and Manipur will be developed.”

Union minister and BJP in-charge for Manipur, Bhupender Yadav tweeted, “I welcome Shri Letpao Haokip ji to the Bhajpa Parivar. Heartening to see the BJP family grow bigger.”
Last month one sitting and an expelled Congress legislator Yamthong Haokip and RK Imo Singh respectively had joined BJP.

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Prabin Kalita

Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.

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