Nagaland polls: PM Modi, Amit Shah to campaign for BJP, NDPP
Hindustan TimesAhead 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 and chief minister Neiphiu Rio’s Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, said the CM on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will visit in poll-bound Nagaland for campaign 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. 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.