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SHILLONG: Congress on Thursday retained the Ampati assembly seat to emerge as the single largest party in the Meghalaya assembly.With a tally of 14,259, Congress's Miani D Shira defeated ruling National People's Party (NPP) candidate Clement G Momin by a margin of 3,191 votes.The victory of Miani, daughter of former CM Mukul Sangma , took Congress's seat tally to 21 - one more than the number of seats held by the NPP in the 60-member House.NPP, which got 19 seats, gained a seat when it won the Williamnagar seat, election to which had been countermanded after the NCP candidate's death in a militant attack..