Tura News

Those who faced defeat in Lok Sabha election 2019 include former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit from North East Delhi, Bhupinder Singh Hooda from Sonipat in Haryana, Harish Rawat (Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar in Uttarakhand) and ex-Madhya Pradesh CM Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal. The others who lost are ex-Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan from Nanded, Sushil Kumar Shinde from Maharashtra’s Solapur, Mukul Sangma from Tura in Meghalaya, Nabam Tuki from Arunachal West and Veerappa Moily from Chikkballapur in Karnataka.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Tura Lok Sabha constituency of Meghalaya.

National People's Party (NPP) president Conrad K Sangma had won the Tura Lok Sabha byelection in 2016 with a huge margin of 1.92 lakh. 

Altogether 66 cadres of the United A'chik Liberation Army (UALA) bade farewell to arms at a historic disbanding ceremony which was attended by Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, Home Minister Roshan Warjri, the interlocutors and others here.

The by-election in Tura was necessitated following the demise of former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A Sangma. 

The National People's Party (NPP) today nominated late P A Sangma's youngest son Conrad K Sangma to contest for the May 16 by-poll in Tura parliamentary constituency.

The body of former Meghalaya chief minister Purno Agitok Sangma was on Saturday brought to his native place at Tura where his funeral will take place on Monday.

A Meghalaya government official, abducted by militant outfit Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), was released unharmed after seven days early Tuesday, police said.