{"id":81,"date":"2020-09-13T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/?p=81"},"modified":"2020-11-03T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:26:28","slug":"meghalaya-power-minister-tests-positive-at-imphal-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/2020\/09\/13\/meghalaya-power-minister-tests-positive-at-imphal-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya power minister tests positive at Imphal airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: Meghalaya power minister James K Sangma, who is the elder brother of NPP national president Conrad Sangma, tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving at Imphal airport on Saturday, party sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The two brothers arrived at the Imphal airport from Delhi to discuss about fielding the party&#8217;s candidates for the upcoming by-elections to the 13 vacant assembly seats in Manipur.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after their arrival, they underwent Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) on the airport premises and the results came out positive for James and negative for Conrad. James again underwent a second test where he tested positive again. Testing positive for the second time, James flew back to Shillong in a chartered flight, they added.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival at Imphal airport, Four NPP MLAs of Manipur, including deputy chief minister Yumnam Joykumar Singh, the party&#8217;s state unit interim president N Kayisii, LJayantakumar Singh and Letpao Haokip received the two at the airport. Later, Conrad Stayed at Hotel Grande in Imphal where he held a meeting with Manipur unit party leaders to discuss the ensuing by-polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: Meghalaya power minister James K Sangma, who is the elder brother of NPP national president Conrad Sangma, tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving at Imphal airport on Saturday, party sources said. The two brothers arrived at the Imphal airport from Delhi to discuss about fielding the party&#8217;s candidates for the upcoming by-elections to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/manipur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}