“BJP has made headway in the Nagaland ULB (urban local body) elections with two of our candidates elected unopposed,” senior BJP leader and the State’s Public Health Engineering Minister Jacob Zhimomi said.
The two victorious candidates are Visheli Zhimo and Kakheka Zhimomi. They won Ward No. 1 and Ward No. 9 under the Niuland Town Council.
State election officials said the two BJP candidates were among 669 candidates who filed their nominations on June 11, the last day of the exercise. They included 61 candidates across the six districts in the eastern part of the State.
These 61 candidates, including 23 women, defied the call of the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) to boycott the civic polls because of the Centre and the State government’s failure to create the autonomous Frontier Nagaland Territory. The ENPO had boycotted the election to Nagaland’s lone Lok Sabha seat too.
The ENPO, however, said that its call for boycott “does not seek to subvert individual autonomy” to contest or participate in the upcoming ULB polls.
- Agencies