Sangma set for NCP comeback

Former LOK Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma, who had quit the NCP following its tie-up with the Congress before the Lok Sabha elections last year, ...

Former LOK Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma, who had quit the NCP following its tie-up with the Congress before the Lok Sabha elections last year, is on his way to rejoin the party.

‘‘He (Sangma) is as good as in the party since there are only a few technicalities left to be sorted out,’’ the NCP spokesperson D.P. Tripathi said, after a party workers’ meeting here today.

The date of Sangma’s rejoining the NCP will be announced after the technicalities are resolved, he said.

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Sangma had quit the party after NCP chief Sharad Pawar decided to tie up with the Congress in the last Lok Sabha elections. Last week, the leader, who was elected to the Lok Sabha on a Trinamool Congress ticket, had expressed confidence at Vadodara that the NCP would maintain its separate identity and not merge with the Congress.

He had also not ruled out the possibility of Trinamool merging with the NCP.

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