NPF to take more time in announcing candidates
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Dimapur, February 19 2014:
The Naga People's Front (NPF) is likely to take longer time than expected in announcing its candidates' names for the lone Nagaland seat and Manipur Outer Parliamentary constituency.
Earlier, it was speculated that the NPF would be declaring officially the names of its candidates for both Nagaland and Manipur after the party's meeting of February 19 .
When contacted by Newmai News Network this evening, an NPF leader in Kohima said the party will take time to announce the candidates' names for Manipur and Nagaland saying, "There is a series of procedures to be followed before we officially announce the names of our candidates" .
Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio's name has been doing the round for contesting the lone Lok Sabha seat of Nagaland.
The 'search committee' of the party has reportedly recommended the name of the chief minister sometimes ago.
There have also been reports that the NPF is working hard to garner supports for the 'consensus candidate' of all the political parties in Nagaland.
However, this idea of the NPF has been challenged by the Congress party in the state saying the Nagaland Pradesh Comgress Committee (NPCC) will definitely field its candidate and the party will soon announce the candidate's name.
Meanwhile, it is also worth mentioning here that the Naga Peoples Front (NPF) was making effort to field its candidates in Arunachal Pradesh vis-a-vis the Lok Sabha poll.
However, the party will now only support a regional political party of that state without fielding its own candidate.
Last month, the NPF leaders and Students Union Movement of Arunachal Pradesh (SUMA) activists had a problem in Itanagar.
Later, the NPF had dismissed it as due to a communication gap the January 23 incident had occurred at Arunachal Pradesh Press Club (APC) premises.