Shillong, March 02: The Nationalist Congress Party would not ally with Congress in the North-East for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, senior party leader Purno Agitok Sangma said on Monday.
"In Assam, NCP will go with Left parties and AUDF. We will put up three candidates in Guwahati, Diphu and Mangaldai in Assam," Sangma told reporters here.
According to the leader, NCP would have an alliance with Manipur Peoples Party (MPP) in Manipur while in Meghalaya it will have coalition with regional parties and BJP.
Sangma said his party would field a candidate at Tura in Meghalaya, while in Shillong, the other LS seat in the state, it would support the nominee of the regional parties.
The NCP was also likely to put up a candidate in Itanagar East seat, he said.
In Nagaland, NCP would support the consensus candidate put up by Democratic Alliance of Nagaland. The party would not field candidates in Mizoram and Tripura.
His statement have come at a time when Congress was negotiating on seat-sharing to ensure that old allies like NCP remained with the UPA.
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