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Imphal, Jan 22:
The National People’s Party (NPP) is set to announce the first list of the name of candidates to be contested in the upcoming Manipur Legislative Assembly Election by tomorrow. The Political Party is also releasing its election manifesto while announcing the name of the party candidates, a source told Imphal Times.
“We have already completed preparation of our party election manifesto and also finalised the name of the candidates for at least 10 Assembly constituencies”, a high profile leader of the NPP told Imphal Times. He also said that the NPP had earlier decided to announce the first lists of candidates today in the presence of the Party’s National President Conrad K Sangma who was scheduled to arrive today. However, due to health problem (tested Covid +ve) he could not come today and the NPP have to release the manifesto as well as the name of the candidates for 10 Assembly constituencies without his presence as the date of notification is just around the corner, the source told Imphal Times.
Name of the constituencies where the name of candidates are likely to announce are Uripok, Keishamthong, Singjamei, Yaiskul, Wangoo, Heirok, Kshetrigao, Hiyanglam, Keirao and Chandel.
The NPP is preparing to field around 30 candidates in 30 Assembly constituencies including some at Hill districts constituencies.
When asked about the expected number of seats that the NPP may win in the upcoming election, the high-profile leader of the NPP said that the number of NPP seats may cross 15. There are some Assembly constituencies that the NPP is expected to win but could not finalized the name of the candidate at this hour so it will take 2 or 3 days to announce. The 2nd list of NPP candidates may be announced in the next couple of days.
Regarding alliance with other political parties, the leader of the NPP rule out any pre-poll alliances but said that they will be the major factor in forming any government in the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly.
“Who knows we get more than 15 seats and some other political party gave us the opportunity to led the government”, he said without showing any seriousness.
