Nagaland polls: PM Modi, Amit Shah to campaign for BJP, NDPP

Ahead of the Nagaland assembly elections scheduled for 27 February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union home Minister Amit Shah will campaign for the pre-poll allies Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and chief minister Neiphiu Rio’s Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), said the CM on Monday.

Speaking to media persons after filing his nomination papers to contest in his home constituency Northern Angami-II at Chiephobozou ADC headquarters, CM Rio said he received information that PM Modi and HM Shah will visit the state either in the second or third week of this month.

The NDPP and BJP have a pre-poll seat-sharing agreement (40-20) wherein NDPP would contest in 40 out of the total 60 constituencies and BJP in the remaining 20.

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Union minister for tribal affairs Arjun Munda, union minister of state for skill development Rajeev Chandrashekhar and BJP spokesperson Nalin S Kohli are currently in the state accompanying state’s BJP bigwigs as they filed their nominations.

On Monday, Munda and Kohli were in Wokha with deputy chief minister Yanthungo Patton as he filed his papers for Tyui while Chandrashekhar was in Mokokchung as state party president Temjen Imna Along and other BJP candidates from the district filed their nominations.

The ruling NDPP and its pre-poll ally BJP announced their official list of candidates for the state assembly elections earlier this week.

Elections to the 60-member Nagaland Assembly is scheduled to be held on February 27, and the last date for filing nomination is February 7.