Ashish Ranjan
Hekani Jakhalu: Today, sixty years after the state’s establishment, Nagaland elected its first female MLA. Hekani Jakhalu of the NDPP, an ally of the BJP, has won the Dimapur-III seat. The 48-year-old advocate and activist was one of four female candidates out of the total 183 who ran in the Nagaland assembly elections. Ms. Jakhalu defeated Mr. Zhimomi of the Lok Janshakti Party.
In the Western Angami seat, another woman candidate, Salhoutuonuo Kruse of the NDPP, is in the lead.
In Nagaland, where counting is currently ongoing, the ruling NDPP-BJP alliance is poised to retain power, having won three seats and leading in more than 35 seats.Since the 2018 elections, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, led by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, has been in an alliance with the BJP. In the previous election, the alliance won 30 seats, while NPF won 26.
The BJP praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government’s peace and development agenda in the northeast on Thursday, as the party led in a majority of seats in Tripura and its alliance government appeared poised to retain power in Nagaland.
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Minister of the Union Kiren Rijiju stated that people in the region have witnessed for the first time how closely and earnestly the Centre has worked to bring peace and development to the region, whether through large-scale projects such as the construction of highways or by providing them with basic amenities such as drinking water, free rations, and electricity.
