Shillong, March 17 : Former Chief Minister of Meghalaya Dr Mukul Sangma on Friday had resigned from the Ampati assembly seat.
Mukul Sangma had submitted his resignation letter to Meghalaya Assembly Speaker Dr Donkupar Roy as member of the assembly from Ampati constituency.
Mukul Sangma, who had won two seats Ampati and Songsak in the recent assembly polls in the state.
After resigned from the Ampati assembly seat, Mukul Sangma is all set to another family member in the political sphere.
After wife, Mukul Sangma has now set to add another family member in politics with his daughter is all set to contest by-election of Ampati constituency.
According to the reports, Mukul Sangma had given up the Ampati constituency for making way for his daughter Miani D Shira to enter in politics.
Reports also said that, the new Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma will contest from the constituency which Mukul Sangma will quit.
Conrad Sangma will have to get elected as an MLA to continue his tenure as the Meghalaya CM.
Mukul Sangma had retained his traditional Ampati seat by defeating BJP candidate Bakul Chandra Hajong by 8104 votes and won the constituency as a MLA consecutively for the sixth term.
Earlier, Mukul Sangma’s wife Dikkanchi D Shira had contested in the 2013 assembly polls from Mahendraganj constituency in South West Garo Hills district and elected to the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.
Dikkanchi D Shira also contested against present CM Conrad Sangma in by-election of Tura parliamentary constituency in 2016, but lost.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
