Imphal: National People’s Party (NPP) legislator M Rameshwar Meitei has been nominated as the leader of the legislature party in the Manipur Assembly, an official statement said on Monday.
The NPP has also appointed Wangoi MLA Kh Loken Singh as its chief whip.
In a letter to Manipur Assembly Speaker T H Satyabrata, NPP national president Conrad K Sangma said, “I write… To inform you that M Rameshwar Meitei has been unanimously nominated as leader of the legislature party with immediate effect.”
Rameshwar, the MLA from Kakching, replaces Kshetrigao legislator Sheikh Noorul Hassan, who has recently been elevated to the post of working president of the party.
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The NPP currently has six MLAs in the 60-member Manipur Assembly. The party had also recently appointed former MP Lorho S Pfoze as president of its Manipur state unit.
