BJP president J P Nadda on Friday visited a church in Kohima in Nagaland

BJP president J P Nadda on Friday visited a church in Kohima in Nagaland.

Nadda visited Mary Help of Christians Cathedral, Kohima.He was accompanied by state BJP president Temjen Imna Along, and MP Phangnon Konyak.

Nagaland is a Christianity dominated state and is going to assembly polls early next year. “It has been a great opportunity to visit the Holy Place, the Cathedral. Really was impressed with the arrangements for worship to God,” Nadda wrote in the visitors’ register of the Cathedral.


In Dimapur Nadda sat inside an auto-rickshaw from the airport. In a resort in the Chumukedima area he met intellectuals and professionals. Nadda also held a meeting with state BJP’s core committee.

Nadda on Friday wrapped up his two day visit to the state. In the draft itinerary Nadda, which was leaked, was slated to visit two churches. Nagaland BJP on Thursday apologised to Kohima Ao Baptist Church.

The BJP issued a statement that said, “We have no such ill intention to drag the good name of the KABA; and we sincerely acknowledge and respect the sentiment of the Church for declining our request, the reason being very genuine, as the Church is already pre-occupied with other programmes.”

It apologized to the Kohima Ao Baptist Church for “inconveniences caused by unscrupulous elements to defame both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Church”.