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.
The Naga National Democratic Party is a regional political party in Nagaland,India,founded in 1964. The party was formed from a merger of the United Democratic Front and the Naga National Party. John Bosco Jasokie is the party leader.
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.
Hokishe Sema was an Indian politician who served as the third Chief Minister of Nagaland and the fourth Governor of Himachal Pradesh. He was also a member of the drafting committee of Naga People's Convention.
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.
P. Shilu Ao was an Indian politician who was involved in the negotiations leading to the creation of Nagaland,in the north-eastern part of India,as one of the states and territories of India in December 1963. Ao then served as the first Chief Minister of Nagaland until August 1966. Ao played a part in persuading the Indian Government and the Lok Sabha to grant Nagaland separate statehood but was not able to reconcile many Naga nationalists who regarded him and his party,as stooges of the central government.
Thepfülo-u Nakhro was an Indian politician from Nagaland who served as the first Speaker of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly and the second Chief Minister of the North East Indian state of Nagaland.
Vizol Vitso-n Koso was an Indian politician from Nagaland who served as the 4th Chief Minister of Nagaland twice from February 1974 until March 1975 and November 1977 until April 1980. He became the Chief Minister of Nagaland as part of the United Democratic Front (Nagaland).
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.
Khriehu Liezietsu is an Indian politician from Nagaland. He represented the Northern Angami I Assembly constituency for two terms representing the Naga People's Front party.
An election was held on 27 February 2018 in 59 out of 60 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland. The scheduled election in Northern Angami II constituency did not take place as only incumbent MLA Neiphiu Rio was nominated and was therefore declared elected unopposed. The counting of votes took place on 3 March 2018.
This is a list of minister from Shürhozelie Liezietsu cabinet starting from 22 February 2017 to 19 July 2017. Shurhozelie Liezietsu is the leader of Naga People's Front was sworn in the Chief Ministers of Nagaland on 22 February 2017. The ministry had 11 Cabinet ministers including the Chief Minister. The following is the list of ministers of his ministry. The government lasted for 147 days after a coup by T. R. Zeliang.
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.
The following is an incomplete list of articles related to the city of Kohima,Nagaland,sorted in alphabetical order. To learn quickly what Kohima is,see Outline of Kohima.
The following is a list of articles relating to the Indian state of Nagaland,sorted in alphabetical order.
Salhoutuonuo Kruse is an Indian politician from Nagaland. In 2023,She along with Hekani Jakhalu Kense became the first women from Nagaland to be elected to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. She was sworn in as a Minister of Women Resource Development &Horticulture in the 5th Rio ministry,making her the first female Minister in the history of the Indian state of Nagaland.
