Rishang Keishing Oldest MP decides to retire

Rishang Keishing, India’s oldest parliamentarian has decided to hang up his boots at 94. In this long political career, Keishing got elected to the first and third Lok Sabha, twice to the Rajya Sabha  from 2002-2014 and decades as Chief Minister of Manipur. His term in the upper house ends on April 9, 2014. In 1952, he was among the youngest MPs elected to India's first Lok Sabha. Though he started his political career as a socialist, he joined the Congress in 1964. In 1972, the United Naga Integration Council, which he floated, merged with the Congress on the ground that He continues to guide the NGO he started for the development of the tribal areas.