Overview
- Meghalaya CM Conrad K. Sangma, TIPRA Motha founder Pradyot Manikya, Nagaland’s Mmhonlumo Kikon and Assam’s Daniel Langthasa unveiled a pan‑regional entity at the Constitution Club in New Delhi.
- A nine-member committee led by James P.K. Sangma has 45 days to propose the new party’s constitution, name, flag and symbol.
- The group says their existing parties will merge into a single outfit at the appropriate time, with future polls to be contested independently even as some remain in NEDA for now.
- The platform’s priorities include protecting indigenous land and property rights, defending Sixth Schedule safeguards, curbing illegal immigration and combating racial discrimination against people from the Northeast.
- Organisers will reach out to other regional parties to broaden the front, as critics such as the MPCC and Meghalaya’s VPP question its intent and viability.