Hill People's Union

The Hill People's Union was a political party in the state of Meghalaya in India. It was founded in 1985.[1] The founders were 11 members from the All Party Hill Leaders Conference and Hill State People's Democratic Party (HSPDP) who joined together after the fall of the earlier short-lived coalition government formed by the two parties, which had won 31 seats in the 1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly elections.[2] It was once "one of the three major regional parties" in the state.[3] In the 1988 elections, under the leadership of Brington Buhai Lyngdoh, the party won 19 seats in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.[1][4] In the 1993 elections it fell to eleven seats.[5] In 1997 its members joined with the HSPDP and the Public Demands Implementation Convention to form the United Democratic Party.[6]

References
  1. Lewis, David S.; Sagar, Darren J. (1992). "Hill People's Union". Political Parties of Asia and the Pacific: A Reference Guide. Longman. p. 110. ISBN 9780582098114.
  2. "Khongwir recollects a regional alliance that did not last". The Shillong Times. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  3. "Unknown". The Illustrated Weekly of India. 111 (1–12). 1992. p. 32. The three major regional parties in Meghalaya — the Hill People's Union, the Hill State People's Democratic Party and the Public Demands Implementation Convention — formed the Regional Democratic Front before the Lok Sabha elections and parliamentary elections in November 1989.
  4. Menon, Ramesh (29 February 1988). "Rough time for minority Congress(I) ministry in Meghalaya". India Today Magazine. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  5. Turner, Barry, ed. (2016). "Meghalaya". The Statesman's Yearbook, 1998–99. Springer. ISBN 9780230271272.
  6. Warjri, Antarwell (2017). "Role of Regional Political Parties and Formation of the Coalition Governments in Meghalaya" (PDF). International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies. 3 (5): 210.
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