Meghalaya Govt to Name Speaker Donkupar Roy's Successor Soon

Shillong, August 28, 2019:

The Meghalaya Government has decided to form a Committee to name the successor of Meghalaya Speaker Donkupar Roy, who passed away recently.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma told mediapersons that the committee has been formed to name a 'consensus candidate' on behalf of the MDA Government in Meghalaya. "Whatever the case may be, we will all come up, and we will put up one candidate", he said.

It may be mentioned here that Roy had passed away exactly one month earlier (on July 28) at the age of 65.

Donkupar Roy was born on November 10, 1954 and was also a former Chief Minister of Meghalaya. He was also the head of the United Democratic Party, a political party recognised in Meghalaya.

After a fractured mandate in Meghalaya’s 2008 Assembly Elections, an alliance between his UDP and a handful of other parties stated claim to form the government under the banner of the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance, with Roy as Chief Minister.

After D. D. Lapang resigned as Chief Minister because he did not hold a majority in the state legislature, Roy was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 19, 2008.

On March 19, 2009, exactly one year into his term, the government was dismissed and the state was put under President’s Rule.

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