Kohima, March 3 : After a comprehensive win and dethroned the 25-year-old Left Front government in Tripura, the Bharatiya Janata Party is now prepared to form government in Nagaland again ties up with the ruling party Naga People’s Front (NPF).
After the poll result, while Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang gives a proposal to BJP that, NPF is ready to form a new government in the state with the BJP if the saffron party comes forward for a post-poll alliance, Minister of State for Home and BJP leader Kiren Rijiju reflecting Zeliang’s proposal and said that, BJP will go with the ruling NPF if no majority with the pre-poll ally party NDPP.
While the two BJP ministers are still in the Zeliang-led government the saffron party had dumped its 15-year old alliance partner NPF in Nagaland and forged with newly formed political party Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) led by three times former Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio.
But the political scenario has been dramatically changed in Nagaland after the poll results out.
In the final result of the Nagaland assembly poll, BJP has won 12 seats, while NDPP won 17, 27 by NPF, 2 by NPP and one each by JD (U) and Independent.
With this result, BJP and NDPP alliance bagged 29 seats while NPF-NPP-JD (U) alliance bagged 30 seats.
If BJP to go with NPF to form a new government then the total strength of the BJP-NPF-NPP-JD (U) will be increased to 42 and strength of BJP and NPF to be increased to 39.
On Saturday, Nagaland CM Zeliang said that, BJP is the alliance partner of NPF and his party is ready to form the next government in Nagaland with BJP.
Zeliang virtually ruled out any alliance with Neiphiu Rio led NDPP.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
