The voters of the Indian state of Nagaland and Meghalaya are in their respective polling stations today to elect their representatives.
The election is presently taking place in at least one hundred and eighteen seats. Totally, there are sixty assembly seats in each state. This time, the election is not happening in at least one seat in each state. The election for the Williamnagar seat of Meghalaya has been cancelled after suspected militants killed the constituency’s Nationalist Congress Party candidate, Jonathone N Sangma. Meanwhile, the Northern Angami-II seat of Nagaland has got a representative without even conducing a poll as the only candidate filed nomination against the newly formed Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party’s candidate, Neiphiu Rio, withdrawn his nomination.
The authorities have deployed a large number of security officials in the states where the elections are happening. Extra forces have been installed in those places considered as highly-sensitive regions.
In the preponderance of the constituencies, the elections are a direct fight between the Congress Party and Bharatiya Janatha Party, as the majority of the regional parties have either got into an alliance with the national parties or indirectly acknowledged the possibility of a post-poll alliance with the national parties.
By now, as per the latest updates, the voting per cent of Nagaland and Meghalaya has crossed seventeen per cent and twenty-two per cent respectively.
In some constituencies, the error occurred in the EVMs and small violence have disturbed the smooth functioning of the elections.
Vignesh. S. G
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