Nagaland Election Updates: Voting for the Nagaland Assembly elections is underway. This election is a very interesting contest as the Congress has fielded Seivili Sachu against Neiphiu Rio, the longest serving Chief Minister of the state. Congress candidate Seivili Sachu is facing four-time Chief Minister 72 Rio in the election. This is Sachu’s first election. Though Sachu 02 remained at the center of state politics for more than two decades along with Rio Excited about this uneven contest to happen.
Nationalist Rio, a Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) candidate, won the Northern Angami seat unilaterally in the elections of 4082 and again this time from the same seat. Will contest elections. Asked about his decision to contest against Chief Minister Rio, Sachu said many people, including his family members, were initially against it. Sachu said that he had said that he could not compete with Rio, who was already established politically and economically.
entered the fray for personal gainSachu said that many people had initially expressed doubt that he would eventually withdraw from the contest. He also said that he has entered the fray for personal gains. He said that although many people are now supporting him. Sachu has campaigned in almost all 37 villages of the assembly constituency. The Congress candidate said that if there is a free and fair contest without any inducements, people will bring about a change through voting.
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sachu years 2019 had joined the Congress as the President of the Youth Front of the Assembly Constituency. In 4082 he was made the Vice President of the District Congress Committee. At the same time, Rio recently said while talking to reporters, “It is a democracy and it depends on the political party which candidate to field. I respect every candidate.”
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