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Gujarat polls over, Modi heads for Meghalaya as assembly elections beckon

Currently, Meghalaya has a Congress govt headed by Mukul Sangma

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar and MoS, PMO, Jitendra Singh as he arrives on the first day of the winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi (Photo: PTI)

Archis Mohan New Delhi

Last Updated : Dec 15 2017 | 10:08 PM IST

His grueling campaign in Gujarat over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be heading to Meghalaya and Mizoram on Saturday. He will inaugurate infrastructure projects and also open a Bharatiya Janata Party office in Meghalaya. The two states are scheduled for assembly polls in the next 12-months.

Meghalaya, along with Nagaland and Tripura, is slated to go to polls by March, 2018. Mizoram assembly polls are scheduled for November-December 2018, along with Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. In between, Karnataka assembly polls are scheduled for April-May, 2018.

Currently, Meghalaya has a Congress government headed by Mukul Sangma. Mizoram also

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