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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

2018 Nagaland Assembly Election Feb 27,2018 - All You Need To Know



A total of 195 candidates are in fray for the February 27 Assembly elections being held in Nagaland.
Religion is one of the dominant issues that will play a key role in the upcoming polls.

 BJP candidates have promised senior citizens a trip to the holy land of Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, Congress, in its manifesto, has assured to work towards setting up a board “to facilitate minorities to visit Holy Land at a subsidised cost”.

As both the parties are trying to woo the Christian-majority of the state, regional parties will try to hold the fort.

Total Number of seats: 60 Seats

Date of Poling: 27/02/2017

Incumbent government
 Nagaland People Front(NPF)led Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) has been ruling over the state for the last 15 years. Former Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio won the elections thrice, but resigned in 2014 after he went to the Lok Sabha. T R Zeliang is now the Chief Minsiter. This election NPF is contesting alone, as the other constituents of DAN, BJP and JD(U) have decided to part ways

Main challenger
 Biggest challenger for Zeliang is Rio himself. Neiphiu Rio wants to return as the Chief Minister of the state. Thus the fight this time is between the ruling NPF and the alliance of Rio’s newly formed NDPP (Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party) and BJP.

Main Poll Issue
 Final solution of the Naga issue remains the key issue of the state. Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang had, in November, said that the Centre was likely to announce the peace agreement with NSCN-IM and six other groups either before Christmas or before the assembly elections. When that did not happen civil society and the various pressure groups led by the NSCN-IM demanded dissolution of the poll process till the final solution is declared by the Union Government.

The boycott call did not work out, with political parties led by the BJP went ahead to announce the candidates. But no public meeting in the state is devoid of some rhetoric on the ‘Final Solution' of the Naga Issue.

Women candidates
 Ever since the first legislative assembly was formed in February 1964, no woman has ever been elected to the House. Nagaland though elected Rano M Shaiza to the Lok Sabha in 1977, the one and only woman lawmaker the people of Nagaland have chosen to represent them in either assembly or parliament

Of the 195 candidates vying for a seat in the 60-member Assembly this time in Nagaland,  only 5 are women


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