{"id":181963,"date":"2022-01-19T00:16:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=181963"},"modified":"2022-01-19T00:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:46:51","slug":"conrad-sagma-elected-npp-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/19\/conrad-sagma-elected-npp-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrad Sagma elected NPP president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shillong, Jan 18 (PTI) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma was on Tuesday elected unopposed as national president of National Peoples&#8217; Party, which also re-elected Thomas A Sangma as its general secretary, the party said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There was no contestant for both posts. Votes are not cast. The returning officer declared the candidates as elected unopposed,&#8221; party election returning officer Abhaya Kashyap said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quizzed on the party&#8217;s position on the re-electipn of a rape accused MLA as its general secretary, Kashyap said, &#8220;A person is not guilty till the court finds him so. I will not comment. That is not the mandate of this forum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thomas, a former Rajya Sabha MP, was accused of raping a woman here on different occasions in June last year and an FIR was lodged in this regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong, Jan 18 (PTI) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma was on Tuesday elected unopposed as national president of National Peoples&#8217; Party, which also re-elected Thomas A Sangma as its general secretary, the party said. &#8220;There was no contestant for both posts. Votes are not cast. The returning officer declared the candidates as elected unopposed,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}