BJP-NDPP MLAs to meet tomorrow to elect Rio as leader

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Last Updated : Mar 04 2018 | 10:50 PM IST
The newly elected MLAs of alliance partners NDPP, BJP and others would meet tomorrow to elect senior NDPP leader Neiphiu Rio as their leader.
NDPP secretary general Abu Metha said the coalition is proposed to be named the People's Democratic Alliance.
"The first sitting of MLAs of the alliance partners would be held tomorrow to officially elect Rio as the leader," Metha said.
Rio, a three-time chief minister and a senior leader of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), staked claim earlier in the day to form a coalition government in Nagaland, saying he has the support of 32 MLAs.
The NDPP and the BJP have won 18 and 12 seats respectively while the lone JD(U) MLA G Kaito Aye and Independent legislator Tongpang Ozukum were backing the alliance, Metha said.

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First Published: Mar 04 2018 | 10:50 PM IST

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