On 6 January 2013,
Sangma launched the party at the national level. He announced an alliance with the
National Democratic Alliance led by
Bharatiya Janta Party. Sangma also reiterated that though the membership of the party was open to all, it shall be a
tribal-centric party. Sangma is a nine-time
Member of Parliament. In July 2012, he refused to accept the party's decision to quit the
2012 Indian presidential election. The National People's Party had appointed Dheeraj Shukla as the
District President of NPP,
Jaunpur. NPP contested the assembly election of
Rajasthan in December 2013, under the leadership of
Kirodi Lal Meena, a former BJP member and MP (Independent from
Dausa) at the time of election and won four seats. Currently, it is a part of
North-East Democratic Alliance consisting of political parties of the northeast which has supported the
National Democratic Alliance. In 2015, in a rare move election commission suspended NPP for its failure to provide the party's expenditure during the Lok Sabha Elections held in 2014. NPP became first party to get suspended by EC. In September 2015, the leaders of six parties —
Samajwadi Party,
Nationalist Congress Party,
Jan Adhikar Party,
Samras Samaj Party, National People's Party and
Samajwadi Janata Party – announced the formation of a third front known as the Socialist Secular Morcha ahead of the
2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. In May 2016, after the
Bharatiya Janata Party led
National Democratic Alliance formed its first government in
Assam, and formed a new alliance called the
North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) with
Himanta Biswa Sarma as its convener. The chief ministers of the northeastern states of
Sikkim, Assam, and
Nagaland too belong to this alliance. Thus, the National People's Party joined the NEDA. The NPP contested nine candidates in the
2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election and won four seats. They won 19 seats in the 2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, although the Indian National Congress emerged as the single largest party, NEDA did well in
2023 assembly elections without any pre-poll alliances. The party emerged as the single largest party and won 26 seats, and formed a government supported by BJP and other NEDA members. On 6 May 2023, the
People's Democratic Front party merged with the National People's Party. National People's Party, West Bengal, is the state unit of the National People's Party in the Indian state of West Bengal. The party's headquarters is located in
Kolkata, the capital of the state. Anish Kr Singh is currently appointed as the
State President of NPP
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