BJP, ally go one up in Assembly by-election in Northeast
The Hindu
The NDPP candidate was the only one to file nomination in the Opposition-less Nagaland
A regional ally has opened theforum in the Northeast by winning an Assembly seat in Opposition-less Nagaland uncontested.
The by-polls to nine other Assembly seats in the Northeast would be held on October 30. Five of these are in Assam, three in Meghalaya and one in Mizoram.
S. Keoshu Yimchunger, the candidate of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), was declared elected to the Shamator-Chessore constituency unopposed on October 13. The NDPP rules Nagaland in alliance with the BJP and the Naga People’s Front (NPF), which joined the government after three years in the Opposition.
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