Meghalaya power minister resigns

SHILLONG: Meghalaya power minister

Comingone Ymbon

on Monday resigned from the

Mukul Sangma cabinet

due to

personal reasons

. “I hereby tender my resignation as minister i/c power, GAD and CnRD w.e.f. from Monday, 4th December, 2017, on personal grounds,” Ymbon said in his letter to chief minister Mukul Sangma. Ymbon was sworn in as minister in August this year.

Sources close to him said he would not seek reelection on a Congress ticket for the assembly election due early next year.

At least six other Congress legislators, including former deputy chief minister Rowell Lyngdoh and his cabinet colleagues Prestone Tynsong and Sniawbhalang Dhar, have announced that they would not seek Congress tickets for the coming assembly election. Three other senior leaders of the party, including party president and four-time chief minister D D Lapang, have also said they are not contesting the assembly election.