Conrad Kongkal Sangma was born on the 27th of January in 1978 and presently his age is 45 years as of 2023, know his biography
Conrad Kongkal is a well-known Indian politician who is the 12th and the current Chief Minister of the state of Meghalaya. Conrad was also a member of the National People’s Party while his father was a former Chief Minister and a former Speaker of Lok Sabha P. A. Sangma. Conrad was a Member of Parliament from Tura from 2016 to 2018.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the swearing-in ceremony of Meghalaya CM-designate Conrad Sangma and the state cabinet, at the Raj Bhavan in Shillong on 7 March, 2023.
Who is Conrad K Sangma new Meghalaya CM, biography, age, family, wife, education, profile, qualification
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the swearing-in ceremony of Meghalaya CM-designate Conrad Sangma and the state cabinet, at the Raj Bhavan in Shillong.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda are also present her. pic.twitter.com/2SFQLZALVj
— ANI (@ANI) March 7, 2023
Conrad represented the South Tura constituency from 2018 and the Selsella constituency from 2008 to 2013. Conrad Kongkal was also the minister of finance, power, and tourism for the Government of Meghalaya from 2008 to 2009. Conrad Kongkal is a former leader of the opposition in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly as he has also served as National President of the Nationalist Youth Congress.
Conrad Kongkal’s family and education
Conrad’s father Purno Sangma was the former Chief Minister of Meghalaya and the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, while his mother’s name is Soradini she is a homemaker. He has siblings, older brother James and younger sister Agatha, who are politicians with NPP and he has another sister Christy, who has remained non-political.
Conrad was born and brought up in Delhi and did his schooling at St. Columba’s School there he also received a bachelor’s degree in business administration in entrepreneurial management from the University of Wharton School based in Pennsylvania. Later, he finished his degree in MBA in the subject of finance from the Imperial College in London.
Conrad Kongkal got married to Mehtab Chandee who is a doctor on the 29th of May in 2009, and has two daughters with her, Amara was born in 2011 and Kaiyyan was born in 2017. Apart from politics, he has been associated with social work, as the president of PA Sangma foundation which functions for the betterment in the sectors of education and the environment. He also runs four colleges in rural Meghalaya.
Conrad Kongkal career
In 2016 Conrad was elected as the national president of the National People’s Party (NPP) following the death of his father earlier that year. In May, he contested from Tura at the by-election to the Lok Sabha and he won by a record margin of 1.92 lakh votes.
He was elected as the Meghalaya chief minister again for the second term on the 7th of March 2023.