Meghalaya saves Congress the blushes, may spell trouble for BJP in Manipur

If Congress woos Conrad Sangma's NPP hard enough, the BJP govt in neighbouring Manipur might be in trouble

As Rahul Gandhi jetted off to the cooler climes of Italy, he left behind the earthquake in the northeast, the decimation of the Congress, near complete.

The region that was once awash with blue is now almost entirely saffron.

Almost entirely? The Congress’s blushes were saved by Meghalaya where the party staved off anti-incumbency and kept the BJP at bay, possibly because of the role of the Conrad Sangma-led National People’s Party (NPP) which has emerged as the second largest force in the state.

A bit about NPP: it is an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party