In 2014 the Indian National Congress party (Congress party) was in power in five out of the eight states in the North-East India. In the region which for long was considered as the Congress party bastion, the party is in power only in Mizoram at the time of writing this paper. In the state assembly elections held since 2014, the Congress party has lost power in four of the five states it ruled before the 16th Lok Sabha elections. The vulnerability of the party in the region was exposed in the 2014 general elections. The party could only manage to win 8 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. This was four less than the twelve seats it had won in the 2009 general elections. The subsequent reversal faced by the Congress party in the five assembly elections held since the 2014 Lok Sabha election have further underlined the shifting base of the party in the region.