BJP-led government’s strength has increased in Manipal as two Congress MLAs have joined BJP. The number of BJP members, in 60-member house, has now increased to 40. Congress MLAs Kshetrimayum Biren Singh and Paonam Brojen joined the BJP. There are now 31 BJP MLAs, four of the Naga People’s Front (NPF), four of the Nationalist People Party (NPP) and one independent in the BJP-led coalition headed by N Biren Singh in the Assembly.
Eight Congress legislators out of 28 Congress MLAs, who were elected during the last Assembly elections in 2017, have joined the BJP.At present, the number of Congress MLAs has been reduced to 20 in the Assembly as seven parliamentary secretaries have submitted their resignation to the chief minister to take up new assignments as the chairmen of several committees of the state assembly.
There are no misunderstandings between the MLAs of the ruling party.