[1]A day after her father P.A. Sangma’s defeat in the Presidential poll, Ms Agatha Sangma offered to resign as minister of state for rural development, sources said.
NCP sources said that Ms Agatha met party chief Sharad Pawar ahead of a meeting of the party leaders and expressed her readiness to quit the Centre.
However, the sources claimed that her decision was related to the controversy between her party NCP and Congress and it had no connection with the result of Presidential poll. But there are talks in the party circles was that she could be facing trouble with the NCP leadership receiving complaints against her from Chhattisgarh and Odisha that she campaigned for her father.
Reports had it that the Agatha issue was likely to come up before the NCP meeting.
Agatha is a member of the Lok Sabha from Tura, a seat represented by her father several times. Her father P.A. Sangma, a founder member of the NCP, resigned from the party to contest the Presidential elections.
Immediately after he declared his intent to contest the election, Mr Pawar had made it clear that there was no question of his party going against the decision of the UPA.
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