Speaker Sharingain Longkümer rejects petition against 7 Naga People’s Front MLAs

GUWAHATI: Speaker of the Nagaland legislative assembly, Sharingain Longkümer, on Tuesday dismissed the disqualification petition against seven Naga People’s Front MLAs.

NPF had petitioned the Speaker in April seeking disqualification of the seven MLAs for “willfully defying the party’s collective decision to support Congress in the last Parliamentary Election to the lone Nagaland Parliamentary constituency”.

“...It is established beyond any reasonable doubt that there is no sufficient ground for presuming that the respondents had voluntarily given up the membership of the original political party, NPF,” said Longkumer’s order.


“I decide that the respondents are not liable to be disqualified under para 1(1) (a) of the Tenth Schedule, Accordingly, I hereby dismiss the petition filed by Chotisuh Sazo, MLA and Imkong L Imchen seeking disqualification.”