W. Wangyuh Konyak | |
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MP | |
Constituency | Nagaland |
Personal details | |
Born | Mon District,Nagaland | 20 October 1963
Political party | NPF |
Spouse | H. Pongthron |
Children | 2 sons and 1 daughter |
Residence | Nagaland |
As of 16 September,2006 Source: |
W. Wangyuh Konyak (born 20 October 1963) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Nagaland constituency and is a member of the Nagaland Peoples Front (NPF) political party.
Konyak won the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 with a margin of over 400,000 votes against his closest opponent,K. Asungba Sangtam who represented the Indian National Congress in the previous term. He fought the election on an NPF ticket. [1]
In 2006,he urged the Information and Broadcasting Ministry of the Indian government to ban the screening of the movie The Da Vinci Code in India. He also asked the then Chief Minister of Nagaland,Neiphiu Rio to convene a special session of the state assembly to ban the movie in Nagaland or issue an official notification in this regard. [2]
In 2008,while a Lok Sabha MP from Nagaland,Konyak was expelled from his party,Nagaland People's Front,for six years as he defied party directives and voted for the nuclear deal tabled in Parliament by the United Progressive Alliance. The NPF was in political alliance with the BJP then at the state government. [3]
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