Kiren Rijiju: BJP will form next government in Nagaland and Tripura

Guwahati, February 25, 2018:

Voicing confidence that the BJP will form the next government in Nagaland and Tripura, Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju has said the Assembly polls in these two states and Meghalaya are a defining election for the entire northeast.

"We have formed the government in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Manipur. Now, these three elections is a defining election because we are going in a big way. This is primarily because the long problems and isolation being faced by the northeast people has found a way in the form of BJP," said Rijiju.

Noting that Tripura elections were conducted peacefully, Rijiju said: "BJP is going to form the government in Tripura that is the ground report and our assessment is that with an absolute majority." "In Nagaland, BJP is fighting the election in coalition and in alliance with the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party and we are in the absolutely comfortable position in Nagaland and we are going to form the government," he said. The BJP and NDPP have stitched a pre-poll alliance with the former contesting in 20 assembly seats and the latter in 40 seats for the 27 February Nagaland assembly elections.