Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma wins bypolls by over 8,000 votes

With Conrad Sangma's win the National People's Party has levelled its tally at 20 with the opposition Cong in 60-member Meghalaya Assembly.

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Opposition says there can't be 2 sets of rules, one for the BJP and the other for everybody else.

The Congress president also took on the BJP for its pre-poll sop of offering Rs 70 crore to churches and religious institutions in the state.

The five Congress MLAs who resigned on Friday had earlier rebelled against chief minister Mukul Sangma and the party leadership.

CM Mukul Sangma said it was a 'major embargo crippling the economy of a predominantly tribal society.'