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Ricky Andrew J. Syngkon, one of Meghalaya’s two Lok Sabha members, died on Thursday (February 19, 2026) evening following a cardiac arrest. He was 54.
A giant-killer who denied Congress’s Vincent H. Pala a fourth straight term from the Shillong parliamentary constituency, Syngkon reportedly collapsed while playing football in Mawiong on the outskirts of Shillong.
He was rushed to a missionary hospital, but doctors could not revive him.
He was an assistant professor of Economics at the North-Eastern Hill University before resigning to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on a Voice of the People Party ticket.
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