Bypolls: Lone Nagaland Lok Sabha seat goes to BJP ally NDPP

| Xavier Rutsa | TNN | Jun 1, 2018, 05:24 IST

KOHIMA: Just months after its formation, the

Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party

(

NDPP

) wrested the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland from the Naga People’s Front (NPF), which held it for 14 years.

NDPP won the byelection to the seat by a decisive margin of 1,73,746 votes.

According to provisional figures, NDPP’s Tokheho Yepthomi, who was the consensus candidate for the ruling People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA) comprising NDPP and BJP, got 5,94,205 votes.

NPF candidate C Apok Jamir secured 4,20,459 votes.

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Ramamurthy Venkateswaran

2362 days ago

It is indeed a new phenomenon that BJP has identified a regional party and trying to get a foot hold in a Christian dominated area in the North East. While the minority dominated former ruling party in the centre, which was having a good base in the North East is steadily losing its grip there. But at the same time, the current ruling party in the centre and in a majority of the states, has met with uneventful results in the bye-elections. This might pose a serious self-introspection of its policies and governance. In a nutshell neither the opposition nor the voting public are not too concerned about the nation but more concerned about how to capture power and how well they lead their life, respectively. We are in the midst of wave, which might throw back to the olden days of deficit financing, scam, etc. are strict regimen. Let us choose what we want!

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