Manipur CM Biren Singh wins floor test in assembly

Manipur chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh won a floor test in the 60-member Manipur assembly on Monday.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had lodged all its legislators in a Guwahati hotel along with an independent and a Trinamool Congress lawmaker since Thursday.

Biren Singh was sworn in as the first BJP CM of Manipur on March 16.

Only two BJP MLAs, including the



chief minister, were inducted in the BJP-led government.

A total of four berths were allotted to National People’s Party, all four of the party’s MLAs were made ministers.The lone Lok Janashakti Party MLA Karam Shyam, Naga People’s Front’s Dikho and Congress legislator Th Shyam Kumar, who joined the coalition after his election, completed the list.