{"id":212255,"date":"2023-03-06T00:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212255"},"modified":"2023-03-06T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:40:34","slug":"newly-elected-mlas-to-take-oath-in-meghalaya-assembly-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/06\/newly-elected-mlas-to-take-oath-in-meghalaya-assembly-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly elected MLAs to take oath in Meghalaya Assembly on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shillong, Mar 5 (PTI) A special session of the Meghalaya Assembly has been convened for the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected MLAs and the election of the speaker, a senior official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new House, with 59 members, will have its first sitting on Monday, when the pro-tem speaker administers the oath of office to the legislators, the official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The House will be meeting again on March 9 for the election of speaker, commissioner and secretary of the Assembly, Andrew Simons, told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP-backed NPP-led alliance with 32 MLAs has staked claim to form the next government in Meghalaya, under the leadership of Conrad K Sangma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NPP won 26 seats in the recently concluded elections, while its ally, the BJP, won only two seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two Hill State People&#8217;s Democratic Party MLAs, who have won the elections, have also pledged their support to the NPP-BJP coalition, along with 2 other Independent legislators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong, Mar 5 (PTI) A special session of the Meghalaya Assembly has been convened for the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected MLAs and the election of the speaker, a senior official said on Sunday. The new House, with 59 members, will have its first sitting on Monday, when the pro-tem speaker administers the oath [&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-212255","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\/212255","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=212255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}