Kohima, Jan 13 (PTI) The JD(U) will contest theNagaland assembly election due this year, a top party leadersaid but did not mention the number of seats for which it willput up candidates.
JD(U) secretary general K C Tyagi said that partypresident and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is very keento campaign in Nagaland and is looking forward to it.
He did not elaborate to how many seats JD(U) willcontest since the polling date is yet to be announced by theElection Commission.
The tenure of the present assembly ends on March 13.
The decision by the party to contest the poll in thenorth eastern state under the leadership of N S N Lotha, theJD(U) Nagaland convenor and former president of Naga StudentsFederation, was taken at a consultative meeting of JD(U)Nagaland here during the day, Tyagi said.
The JD(U) slogan of the election will be 'developmentfor Naga people', Tyagi told a press conference here.
“Although, sufficient fund had been granted by thecentral government to the successive governments yet theprogress and developments on the ground are very dismal,” hesaid and vowed that JD(U) would endeavor to fulfill itsobjective by bringing down the corruption to its lowest ebb.
“If voted to power, JD(U) is determined to utilizethe funds judiciously for all round development of Nagaland “,he added.
Lotha claimed that some of the sitting legislator havecontacted JD(U) seeking ticket but refused to divulge thenames. A retired bureaucrat who had served as OSD to formerchief minister Neiphiu Rio had formally joined the party andwould be a contestant in the poll.
He said that the JD(U) would review its alliance withthe Democratic Alliance Nagaland(DAN) which compromises NPF,BJP, NCP and JD(U).
Meanwhile, the JD(U) state unit will stage a sit-in atthe Jantar Mantar in New Delhi in the last week of January tohighlight the issues facing Nagaland in particular and thenorth east in general, party sources said. PTI NBS KKKK.
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