North-East Democratic Alliance

North-East Democratic Alliance
Chairperson Amit Shah
Lok Sabha leader Narendra Modi
Rajya Sabha leader Arun Jaitley
Former Prime Minister(s) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Founder Bharatiya Janata Party
Founded 2016
Political position Centre-right to Right-wing
National convener Himanta Biswa Sarma
No. of members 10 Parties
Seats in Lok Sabha
281 / 545

Present Members 538 + 1 Speaker

Seats in Rajya Sabha
57 / 245

Present Members 245

The North-East Democratic Alliance or NEDA is a political coalition that was formed on May 24, 2016 by Bharatiya Janata Party along with regional political parties like Naga People's Front, Sikkim Democratic Front, People's Party of Arunachal, Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People's Front in Northeast India. The motive of the new political front was to protect the interest of the people of the region as well as uniting non-Congress parties in Northeast India. Himanta Biswa Sarma was appointed as the convenor of the front.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

History

The alliance was established after Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance which includes parties like Asom Gana Parishad and Bodoland People's Front formed its first government in Assam. The Chief Ministers of the northeastern states of Sikkim, Pawan Kumar Chamling; Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal, Arunachal, Kalikho Pul and Nagaland, T. R. Zeliang are the members of the alliance. BJP President Amit Shah chaired the meeting which was also attended by BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav and BJP North East Zonal Organizing Secretary Ajay Jamwal.[7] The alliance suffered a big setback when their 30 MLAs defected back to Indian National Congress.

On 16 September 2016, 43 MLAs from the ruling party, under the CM Pema Khandu, left Indian National Congress to join People's Party of Arunachal party, in alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party. Though Pema Khandu is still the Chief minister, it is soon expected that either a coalition government will be formed with BJP as the speaker of assembly has also changed sides with the CM, or that the Indian Government will dissolve the state assembly for a fresh general elections.[8]

In October 2016, People's Party of Arunachal formally joined hands with Bharatiya Janata Party making Arunachal Pradesh 15th state to have BJP led NDA in Power,[9] and with this new coalition, Tamiyo Taga sworn-in as Cabinet minister of Arunachal Pradesh.[10]

Present members

Currently, the parties in and supporting the NEDA are:

No Party Current No. of Lok Sabha MPs Current No. of Rajya Sabha MPs Base State Joining Date
1 Bharatiya Janata Party 278 54 National 2016
2 Naga People's Front 1 1 Nagaland 2016
3 People's Party of Arunachal 0 0 Arunachal Pradesh 2016
4 Asom Gana Parishad 0 0 Assam 2016
5 Bodoland People's Front 0 1 Assam 2016
6 Sikkim Democratic Front 1 1 Sikkim 2016
7 Mizo National Front 0 0 Mizoram 2016
8 National People's Party 1 0 Meghalaya 2016
10 United Democratic Party 0 0 Meghalaya 2016
11 Ganashakti Party 0 0 Assam 2016

List of Current NEDA/BJP coalitions Chief Ministers

No State/UT Govt Since Chief Minister CM's Party CM Since Alliance Partner Seats in Assembly Percentage of Seats
1 Sikkim 12 December 1994 Pawan Kumar Chamling SDF 12 December 1994 BJP 21/32 65
2 Nagaland 8 March 2008 T. R. Zeliang NPF 24 May 2014 BJP 50/60 83
3 Assam 19 May 2016 Sarbananda Sonowal BJP 19 May 2016 AGP BPF 86/126 68
15 Arunachal Pradesh 16 September 2016 Pema Khandu PPA 16 September 2016 BJP 54/60 90

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