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Guwahati, February 18 : A Tamilnadu like political drama is being played in Nagaland following at least 40 rebel legislators of the ruling Nagaland People's Front (NPF) had spirited out the north eastern Indian state and met in a crucial meeting in a resort in Kaziranga National Park in Assam to select the next Chief Minister of the state.
A top source of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) collision founded by NPF said that, former Chief Minister and present Lok Sabha member Neiphiu Rio would likely to be the next CM of Nagaland instead of present CM T R Zeliang.
The rebel legislators met in the meeting at Borgoch resort in the World Heritage site.
The source said that, there has been patch up between Zeliang and Rio.
The camp of 40 MLAs including Independents in the 60-member house led by NPF president Shurhozelie Leizietsu were reached in Kaziranga on Friday night.
Meanwhile, Nagaland Governor PB Acharya is likely to return Kohima today evening after met President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi following the current political stalemate in the state on Friday.
Rio and Zeliang, both are camping in Delhi also likely to return to Kohima same day.
On February 15, 33 MLAs out of 42 from NPF had dramatically thrown their weight to Liezietsu as the new CM.
On next day Zeliang and Acharya had immediately rushed to Delhi.
But a new tweest added in Nagaland's political drama on Friday evening after the rebel legislators camp reached in Kaziranga.
Meanwhile, Acharya said that, there are not well in Nagaland.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
