The Left Front retained its bastion Tripura while the Naga People's Front in Nagaland and Congress in Meghalaya are set to return to power in the northeast states where counting of votes was taken up on Thursday.
Voting was underway on Friday in 102 Lok Sabha seats spread across 21 states and Union territories in the first of the seven phases of the world's largest electoral exercise, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging voters to exercise their franchise in record numbers.
The Democratic Alliance of Nagaland with 34 members, including four Independents, met Nagaland Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Sunday and formally staked claim to form the next government in the state. After electing Neiphiu Rio as the DAN legislature party leader, the MLAs of NPF (26), BJP (2) and NCP (2), accompanied by Lok Sabha MP of NPF W Koniyak, met the Governor.
Rattled with the twin problem of defection and resignation after the selection of candidates for the ensuing assembly election in Nagaland, the Congress has called upon all the deserters to come back and work for the party.
Counting of votes for the March five Nagaland assembly election began at 1100 hours, as the EC rescheduled the time for opening of the Electronic Voting Machines due to Friday's re-polling in some booths and logistical problems. The electoral fortune of political leaders like former Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, CLP leader I Imkong, former Chief Minister K L Chishi (Congress), former Finance Minister K Therie (Congress) among others will be decided by Saturday afternoon.
Addressing an election rally in Tuensang, Shah said there are some issues related to development and rights of eastern Nagaland and those will be addressed after the assembly elections.
The JD-U legislator from Satakha and Independent MLA Tongpang Ozukum have announced that they will join the BJP-NDPP alliance, taking its tally to the magic figure of 31.
Normal flight services at Manipur's Imphal International Airport were affected on Sunday afternoon over sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO), officials said.
The cabinet meeting was convened at a short notice to discuss the political situation in Nagaland against the backdrop of the Bharatiya Janata Party-backed Democratic Alliance winning a controversial no-confidence motion in December.
A report sent by the Nagaland government to the Home ministry has said that charges of rape against Syed Sarif Khan, who was lynched by a mob in Dimapur, were not established conclusively and medical reports are still awaited.
The BJP has dumped its 15-year-old alliance partner, the ruling Naga People's Front.
Also, the thin winning margins of his last two successful campaigns are proving to be thorns for the sitting MLA.
In a meeting mediated by Union Minister of State for Home, Khiren Rijiju, the Chief Ministers of Assam and Nagaland, Tarun Gogoi and T R Zeliang, on Thursday promised to take joint efforts to resolve the vexed boundary dispute.
Dhankhar, 68, who was Union deputy minister of parliamentary affairs in 1990-91, quit the Congress in 2003 and became a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The poll panel said the seizures made since the polls were announced on October 9 are over seven times (Rs 239.15 crore) the seizures made in the previous assembly elections in these states in 2018.
At Thamnapokpi under Moirang constituency in Bishnupur district, armed men fired several rounds in the air near a polling booth prompting voters to flee, police said on Friday, adding additional security personnel were rushed to the spot to contain the situation.
Funded by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, the 100x2 KW power plant was jointly set up by the village councils of Chizami village and nearby Sumi village with technical assistance from Nagaland Renewable Energy Development Agency.
With them, a total of 74 Myanmar military personnel had fled to Mizoram due to the recent gunfights with the People's Defence Force.
Three terrorists of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) and an Assam Rifles (AR) officer were killed in an encounter in Mon district of Nagaland, a defence spokesman said on Wednesday.
Nagaland University offers admissions for the 2007-2008 academic year.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti said the apex court has already defined hate speech and the question now is of implementation of its directions.
And it happens in Nagaland.
Voters include 8.4 crore men, 8.23 crore women and 11,371 from third gender. There are as many as 35.67 lakh first time voters, besides 3.51 crore young voters in the age group of 20-29 years.
Barring some stray incidents in some polling stations at Dimapur-I and the destruction of an electronic voting machine at Tuensang Sadar II, the polling passed off peacefully.
Pronouncing the judgement, Justice Khanna said the court has rejected all the petitions, including those seeking resorting back to ballot papers in elections.
Former CBI Director Ashwani Kumar and Congress veteran S C Jamir were on Saturday appointed as governors of Nagaland and Odisha respectively.
'The fraud is the electronic voting machine is being manipulated by humans, and not counting the votes that is shown on VVPAT.'
Neiphiu Rio was on Tuesday sworn in for a third straight term as chief minister of Nagaland along with 11 ministers by the governor at a glittering function at the Raj Bhavan in Kohima.
One person was killed and another injured in heavy firing between two groups at Narainsena in Bishnupur district on Tuesday morning, police said.
Even as all the sixty legislators from Nagaland met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday to mount pressure for an early solution to the seven decades old Naga imbroglio, the Khole-Kitovi faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland has expressed strong opposition to any "secret pact" with the NSCN-Isak Muivah faction without taking "NSCN (Khole-Kitovi) into confidence."
Hundreds of rural women who gathered to collect forms for a newly announced government scheme in Jorhat district of Assam left their queues to greet Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was leading the 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' through the area on Thursday.
The IMD has warned of heatwave to severe heatwave conditions in parts of West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh during the next five days.
While Jamir, also the former chief minister of Nagaland, escaped unhurt, a security personal accompanying him received injuries as the attackers fired mortars from a distance while the Governor was returning from Mokokchung to Dimapur, the sources said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi donned the traditional gear of the Naga tribes
The yatra, which is scheduled to begin on January 14, will cover 6,713 kilometres and the participants will travel on buses and foot.
Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Sunday said his government will continue to work for the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the state.
Shah said for the first time in India's history, Modi prioritised security, peace and development in the northeast and as a result of it, the region is now rapidly heading on the path of peace and development.
The prime minister was accompanied by three Union ministers C P Thakur, Bijoya Chakraborty and Ashok Pradhan.
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