In its bid to regain its political footprint in the Northeast, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has reconstituted the Northeast Co-ordination Congress Committee (NECCC)with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its patron and former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma as its chairman. Reconstituted earlier this week, the NECCC will coordinate the activities of the Pradesh Congress Committees across the Northeast states in order to strengthen the party which has lost one after another state in the region to the BJP and its allies.