Nagaland is, at best, an oligarchy where the rich live dual lives, spending only some time in Nagaland as and when it suits them, and the poor spend all their energy trying to survive
The nominees are contesting in 59 out of 60 seats, as the Akuluto seat in Zunheboto district was won uncontested by BJP nominee and sitting MLA Kazheto Kinimi.
The fight will be a straight one in which Congress candidate Seyievilie Sachu, for whom the February 27 poll will be his first outing in the state election, has thrown a challenge to the 72-year-old political giant.
The BJP and the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) are in pre-poll alliance in Nagaland. Deputy Chief Minister and Nagaland BJP leader, Yanthungo Patton appreciated that Modi is the only prime minister of the country to have visited the north east 57 times in nine years.
Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio felicitates PM Narendra Modi ahead of his public address, in Dimapur on February 24. The BJP-NDPP alliance will contest in all the seats of the 60-member House.
The Angh of Oting, Tahwang, is contesting the February 27 assembly polls on a Naga People's Front (NPF) ticket against the incumbent BJP MLA P Paiwang Konyak, who is a Cabinet minister in the outgoing government.
The 60-member Nagaland Assembly will vote on February 27, while the counting of votes will be taken up on March 2.Employment opportunities for the migrants are still few in Mon
Athawale said the RPI(A) is an ally of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, and the party candidates after winning elections in Nagaland would work with the BJP-NDPP in the state as well.
Mon (Nagaland), Feb 20 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted that the NDPP-BJP coalition will retain power in Nagaland and it will solve all..
The governance record of the NDPP-BJP government is abysmal but that won’t make a difference. The once-in-five-years festival of democracy has become synonymous with money power, wining and dining
The Union minister for roads, transport and highways said road projects worth over Rs 25,000 crore are being implemented in Meghalaya.
BJP president J P Nadda had released the party's manifesto for Meghalaya on Wednesday and for Nagaland on Tuesday.
In an interview to Moneycontrol, Pradeep Gupta spoke of a plethora of issues in Tripura, to BJP making inroads in Meghalaya and Congress party trying to revive its base.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ended ‘mann ki doori’ between northeast and the rest of India, said Amit Shah.