Shillong: Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Kongkal Sangma on Tuesday tendered his resignation as Lok Sabha MP after he was elected as a MLA last week.

Conrad handed over his resignation letter as the Tura parliamentarian to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan in New Delhi on Tuesday morning.

He has represented the Tura Lok Sabha seat, covering all the five districts of the Garo hills region, since May 2016 after he was elected in a bypoll following the demise of his father and former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Agitok Sangma.

In the bypoll, Conrad had then defeated Congress leader Dikkanchi D. Shira, the wife of former chief minister Mukul Sangma, by a resounding margin of 1,92,000 votes.

Following the hung verdict in the Assembly polls held in February, Conrad was chosen to lead the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, which is a coalition of the NPP, BJP and other parties and Independents.

He was sworn in as chief minister on March 6.

Conrad contested the recent South Tura bypoll, a seat vacated by his sister and former Union minister Agatha Kongkal Sangma. The chief minister won by a historic margin of more than 8,400 votes against his nearest Congress rival.

However, there will not be any bypoll for the Tura Lok Sabha seat as the country is just months away from electing a new Lok Sabha.

From the Tura seat, Agatha, who is Conrad's youngest sister, is likely to be the NPP nominee. She had represented the seat in 2008 and 2009 as an NCP member.

Conrad will take oath as a legislator on Wednesday afternoon at the Assembly secretariat.