Today is a big day for the two hill states of Northeast India, as Meghalaya and Tripura as the votes polled in the assembly elections will be counted. The main contest in the two states is between UPA allies, congress and NCP. In Meghalaya, the Nationalist Congress Party is trying hard to capture power from the Congress and former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Sangma is spearheading the operations of the party. In Tripura, it is between the ruling Left Front and the Congress-Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura. The polls conducted on February 23 in Tripura and on March 3 in Meghalaya. Both states have 60 seats each. There are 313 candidates in Tripura while 331 candidates in Meghalaya. Sangma was the CM of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990. Despite heading a coalition government with 48 members, he was toppled by late chief minister B B Lyngdoh. But it's not just the NCP that the Congress is fighting. The party is also pitted against its partners in power - the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the Meghalaya Democratic Party, the parties that made corruption under congress regime a big issue.
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