Shillong, Mar 9 Reducing the NCP-led Meghalaya Progressive Alliance(MPA) government to a wafer thin majority, two Independent MLAs, one of them who had joined it just two weeks ago, today withdrew support to it.
Chief minister Donkupar Roy confirmed the withdrawal of support by Limison Sangma and Ismail R Marak but said the government was stable as it still enjoyed majority support in the House.
Following the development, the strength of 11-month-old MPA government has come down to 31 in the 60-seat House.
"They (Independents) have gone back from where they came, but we are still in a comfortable position and the government is stable," Roy told PTI.
He was referring to the two Independents rallying behind the Congress soon after the assembly elections in March last year, before supporting the MPA.
Limison Sangma had joined the MPA just two weeks ago.
"They (MPA leaders) promised me that I would be given a ministerial berth. But they gave me only the status of a Parliamentary Secretary, that too without any portfolio. So I decided to withdraw support," Sangma told PTI over phone from Tura.
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