The Naga People's Front (NPF) is a regional political party in Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. It headed the Nagaland government with the Bharatiya Janata Party, as part of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland from 2003 to 2018. NPF is coalition partner of N. Biren Singh ministry led BJP government in Manipur. The party ideology includes Conservative Christianity, thus encouraging it. It demands and supports greater autonomy for Naga areas and Naga cultural Nationalism.
Neiphiu Guolhoulie Rio is an Indian politician who is serving as the 9th and current Chief Minister of Nagaland since 2018, previously 2003 to 2014 and from 2018 till date. He is the only Nagaland Chief Minister to have served five consecutive terms, and is the longest serving Chief Minister of Nagaland. He was also a Member of Parliament from Nagaland in Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2018.
Taditui Rangkau Zeliang is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Nagaland. He has served twice as the Chief Minister of Nagaland, from May 2014 to February 2017 and from July 2017 to March 2018. A leader of the Naga People's Front, T. R. Zeliang previously served as a Member of Parliament, representing Nagaland in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He served as the Chairman of United Democratic Alliance (Nagaland) and was former leader of the NPF Legislature Party and former Leader of Opposition in Nagaland Legislative Assembly.He represents the Peren Assembly constituency in Nagaland Legislative Assembly since 2008.
Tokheho Yepthomi is an Indian politician from Nagaland. He is a five term Member of Legislative Assembly and former Cabinet Minister of Nagaland and two term Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for Nagaland.
Z. Obed was a prominent public figure in Nagaland. He was one of the first local Nagas to have cleared the UPSC exams and selected as an IAS officer. He served the government of Nagaland as an IAS officer in various capacities and eventually rose to the highest position in the bureaucracy as the Chief Secretary to the Government of Nagaland in 1980. After his retirement, he was called to contest the Assembly elections by his supporters in Kohima and so he waded in to the political arena and contested as an INC candidate from the Kohima Town constituency and was elected as an MLA in the 1993 Assembly elections. Due to his vast experience and stature as a public servant of integrity, Mr. Obed was appointed as the Minister of Urban Planning in Chief Minister S.C. Jamir's cabinet. In 2003, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland again as the Nagaland People's Front candidate in the constituency Kohima Town (ST) and was once more appointed as the PHE Minister in Chief Minister Niphiu Rio's cabinet.
The Democratic Alliance of Nagaland is a state level coalition of political parties in Nagaland. It headed the Nagaland government with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It is formed in 2003 after Nagaland Legislative Assembly election with Naga People's Front (NPF) and BJP. The alliance is in power in Nagaland since 2003.
The North-East Democratic Alliance is a political coalition that was formed on May 24, 2016, by Bharatiya Janata Party. The motive of the new political front was to unite non-Congress parties in Northeast India .Himanta Biswa Sarma was appointed as the convenor of the front.
Elections in the Republic of India in 2018 included by-elections to the Lok Sabha, elections to the Rajya Sabha, elections to of eight states and numerous other by-elections to state legislative assemblies, councils and local bodies.
The elections to the 13th Nagaland State Legislative Assembly was held on 27th February 2018 in 59 out of its 60 constituencies, with one member elected unopposed. The counting of votes took place on 3rd March 2018. The incumbent Naga People's Front (NPF) lost the elections, while Chief minister T. R. Zeliang retained his seat. Former NPF leader, Neiphiu Rio joined the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) before the elections. Subsequently, with two-thirds majority in the assembly, the NDPP-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance formed the government with Rio as the new Chief Minister of Nagaland.
This is a list of minister from the Neiphiu Rio fourth cabinet starting from December 2013. Rio is the leader of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party and was sworn in to the Chief Ministers of Nagaland on 8 March 2018. The ministry had 12 Cabinet ministers including the Chief Minister. The following is the list of ministers of his ministry.
Yanthungo Patton, also known as Y. Patton, is an Indian politician from Nagaland and current Deputy Chief Minister of the Indian state of Nagaland serving in the NDPP-BJP administration. He is the BJP MLA from Tyüi Assembly Constituency and was Home Minister in the NPF-led government. He is also the BJP Legislature Party (BLP) leader in the state assembly.
Zhaleo Rio is a Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party politician from Nagaland. He has been elected in Nagaland Legislative Assembly election from Ghaspani II Assembly constituency in 2013 as a candidate of Naga People's Front and 2018 as a candidate of Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party. He was deputy speaker of Nagaland Legislative Assembly from 2018 to 2019 before being named as an advisor to Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio and allocated three departments, they are Sericulture, Excise and Minority Affairs. He is brother of Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio.
Neiba Kronu is a Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party politician from Nagaland. He has been elected in Nagaland Legislative Assembly election in 2008, 2013 as a candidate of Naga People's Front and in 2018 from Pfütsero constituency as candidate of Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party. He was Minister of Planning & Co-ordination and Land revenue in Fourth Neiphiu Rio ministry from 2018-2023.
G. Kaito Aye is a Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party politician from Nagaland. He is currently serving as Cabinet minister in Government of Nagaland and member of Nagaland Legislative Assembly representing Satakha.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Nagaland on 27 February 2023 to elect all 60 members of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 2 March 2023.
Elections to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly were held in February 1998 to elect members of the 60 constituencies in Nagaland, India. The Indian National Congress won a majority of the seats and S. C. Jamir was re-appointed as the Chief Minister of Nagaland. The number of constituencies was set as 60 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.
Elections to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly were held in February 2003 to elect members of the 60 constituencies in Nagaland, India. The Democratic Alliance of Nagaland, which was formed of the Naga People's Front, the Bharatiya Janata Party, Janata Dal (United) and the Samata Party, won a majority of seats and Neiphiu Rio was appointed as the Chief Minister of Nagaland. The number of constituencies was set as 60 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.
The United Democratic Alliance is a state-level political alliance in the Indian state of Nagaland.
Salhoutuonuo Kruse is an Indian politician from Nagaland. In 2023, along with Hekani Jakhalu Kense, Kruse became the first woman to be elected to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. She was appointed the Minister for Women Resource Development & Horticulture in the 5th Rio ministry, making her also the first female cabinet minister in Nagaland. She previously served as a president of the Angami Women Organization.
