BJP dumps ally of 15 years in Nagaland

KOHIMA: The BJP has decided to forge an alliance with newly floated Nationalist Democratic People’s Party (NDPP) led by former CM Neiphiu Rio for the February 27 Assembly poll in Nagaland. The BJP has dumped its 15-year-old alliance partner, the ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF). A decision to this effect was taken in New Delhi on Friday at a meeting between BJP president Amit Shah and Rio, in the presence of Nagaland’s BJP president Visasolie Lhoungu, the party’s state media cell convener, K James Vizo said. He added that the NDPP would contest 40 of the 60 seats in the state assembly while the BJP would field candidates in the remaining 20 seats.