BJP joins hands with NDPP for Nagaland assembly poll

February 03, 2018 16:33

The BJP has decided to forge an alliance with newly floated Nationalist Democratic People's Party led by former chief minister Neiphiu Rio for the

February 27 assembly poll in Nagaland.

The BJP has dumped its 15-year-old alliance partner, the ruling Naga People's Front.

A decision to this effect was taken in New Delhi yesterday at a meeting between BJP president Amit Shah and Rio in the presence of BJP's Nagaland president Visasolie Lhoungu, the party's state media cell convener, K James Vizo said today.

He said the NDPP would contest 40 of the 60 seats in the state assembly while the BJP would field candidates in the remain 20 seats.

The BJP is the only party till date to announce that it will contest the election.

Eleven parties including the ruling Naga People's Front on January 29 had decided not to contest the February 27 polls, agreeing to the demand of tribal bodies and civil society groups to resolve the protracted Naga political problem first.

Later, the BJP had announced it would contest the polls.

-- PTI

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