New Delhi: The northeastern states of Meghalaya and Nagaland will on Monday (February 27, 2023) vote within the meeting elections, the place round 552 candidates are within the fray. In Meghalaya, there are 60 meeting seats, however polling for the Sohiong constituency in East Khasi Hills district was adjourned as a result of loss of life of UDP candidate HDR Lyngdoh, whereas in Nagaland, over 13 lakh voters will resolve the electoral destiny of 183 candidates contesting in 59 out of a complete of 60 seats because the Akuluto seat in Zunheboto district was received uncontested by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee and sitting MLA Kazheto Kinimi.
Over 19,000 polling officers have been deployed at 3,419 cubicles arrange for the elections to the 59 meeting seats in Meghalaya, the place a complete of 369 candidates are contesting the polls.
Polling in each states might be held from 7 am to 4 pm, whereas counting of votes might be taken up on March 2.
Meghalaya Assembly Elections 2023
In Meghalaya, round 19,000 polling personnel and employees have been deployed for the election course of. The Election Commission has additionally deployed 119 firms of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) within the state.
Out of the full of three,419 polling stations, 640 have been recognized as ‘susceptible’, 323 are ‘crucial’ and 84 are recognized as each.
In the state, 21,75,236 electorates, together with 10.99 lakh girls and 10.68 lakh males, will resolve the destiny of 369 candidates.
As many as 369 candidates are within the fray, of which, 36 are girls and 44 Independents.
#Meghalaya polling events trekking tough terrains , crossing rivers and traversing throughout the double decker dwelling root bridge in the direction of their polling station with the target of leaving no voter to be left behind.#ECI #AssemblyElections2023 #MeghalayaElections2023 pic.twitter.com/mVNDcjkTWi
— Election Commission of India #SVEEP (@ECISVEEP) February 26, 2023
The ruling National People’s Party is aiming to retain energy, whereas the BJP and Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) try to unseat the incumbent authorities.
The Congress and the BJP are contesting in 59 seats, whereas the NPP has put up nominees in 56 constituencies, the TMC in 57, and the United Democratic Party (UDP) in 46.
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The NPP, which has been main the ruling alliance for the final 5 years, is preventing alone towards former ally BJP, opposition TMC, and different regional events such because the UDP and People’s Democratic Front.
The Voice of the People’s Party is contesting in 18 meeting constituencies within the Khasi Jaintia Hills area.
Chief Minister Conrad Ok Sangma is contesting from the South Tura constituency the place he’ll lock horns with militant-turned-politician Bernard Marak, who was arrested final 12 months and later launched on bail on the cost of operating a brothel in his farmhouse and being concerned in human trafficking.
Nagaland Assembly Elections 2023
In Nagaland, the electors embody 6,47,523 male and 6,49,876 feminine voters, who’re eligible to train their franchise throughout 2,291 polling stations.
Women polling groups transferring to their assigned polling stations after gathering the EVMs & polling materials forward of #NagalandElections2023 #ECI pic.twitter.com/xs53Bi9DO2
— Election Commission of India #SVEEP (@ECISVEEP) February 26, 2023
The ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and the BJP are preventing the polls on a 40:20 seat-sharing foundation.Â
The Congress, which dominated the state until 2003 and doesn’t have any member within the present House, has fielded 23 candidates.
The Naga People’s Front (NPF), which received 26 seats within the final meeting polls, has fielded candidates in 22 seats, however one among them withdrew, leaving 21 within the fray.
The National People’s Party (NPP) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have fielded 12 candidates every.
Newbie in Nagaland politics — Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) — has put up as many as 16 candidates, whereas the Republican Party of India (Athawale) has fielded eight aspirants.
A complete of 19 nominees will contest as Independents.
The NDPP had allied with the saffron celebration and fashioned a authorities within the northeastern state in 2018, with backing from the JD(U) and an Independent.Â
In 2021, the NPF joined the ruling NDPP-led alliance to type an all-party authorities named United Democratic Alliance (UDA).
The NDPP-BJP mix is looking for a mandate for the second time period, with Neiphiu Rio because the chief ministerial candidate of the alliance.
Four-time Chief Minister and NDPP chief Neiphiu Rio will lock horns with greenhorn Seyievilie Sachu of the Congress within the Northern Angami-II seat.
