LS Polls: NPF to announce candidate this week
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Dimapur, March 04 2014 :
Naga People's Front (NPF) will declare the name of its candidate for Manipur Outer Parliamentary constituency in this week, mostly probably on Friday.
Well placed sources in the NPF circle informed NNN that the party will announce the name of its candidate in this week as the 'search committee' has 'almost done its job' .
There are three aspiring candidates fervently lobbying for the NPF ticket to contest in the Manipur Outer parliamentary seat in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.
There are four NPF legislators in Manipur and the party has great expectation in the Outer seat of Manipur, the sources stated.
On March 3, the Manipur State unit of NPF had a meeting with the Central NPF leaders in Kohima and it had decided to declare the name of its candidate in the next few days, the sources stated.
With this development, the NPF will be contesting only in two Parliamentary seats in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.
It had given up the idea not to field its candidate in Arunachal Pradesh but had decided to support a regional party of that state.
The NPF has a big following in the two Arunachal Pradesh districts--Changlang and Tirap.