Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday claimed that the Congress used the Northeast as an ATM, while the BJP considers the eight states of the region as 'Ashtalakshmi' (eight forms of Goddess Lakshmi) and is working for its peace and development.
Addressing an election rally in Dimapur, he said the NDA is striving to bring permanent peace in Nagaland so that Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 is completely lifted from the state.
"The country can't be run by distrusting your own people but by respecting and solving their problems. Earlier, the Northeast had politics of divide, we have now transformed it into divine governance. The BJP does not discriminate people on the basis of religion or region and religion," Modi said.
Noting that there was political instability in Nagaland during Congress rule, he claimed that the grand old party remote-controlled Northeast from Delhi, and siphoned off money meant for its development, while giving primacy to "dynasty politics, from Delhi to Dimapur".
Here are the LIVE updates on the Assembly Elections:
Election Official Dies In Road Accident In MeghalayaIn an unfortunate incident, an election official who was part of a polling party died today after their vehicle met with an accident in West Garo Hills.
Focus On Four Women Candidates In Nagaland PollsAs Nagaland goes to the polls on Monday to elect a new Assembly, all eyes will be on four women candidates who are trying to create history by becoming the first women to be elected as a legislator in this North Eastern state.
Nagaland Assembly Elections: A Look At Key Players, ConstituenciesThe BJP and NDPP are contesting the elections on a 20:40 seat-sharing arrangement while the Naga People's Front (NPF) and Congress are contesting in 22 and 23 seats respectively.
Meghalaya Assembly Election: Election Staff Cross Rivers, Trek For Hours To Reach Meghalaya Poll BoothsElection officials started reaching the booths across Meghalaya on Saturday, trekking steep mountainous paths, crossing muddy rivers and walking for hours as the state prepares for the February 27 polls.
Polling In Meghalaya's Sohiong Adjourned After Former State Home Minister DiesH D R Lyngdoh, former state home minister and a candidate of the United Democratic Party for the constituency, had died of cardiac arrest on February 20.
The @MahilaMNagaland #Tuensang dist held a meeting with MM of polling booth 17-Post office -B & discussed about various schemes under PM -Yojana & Vision document 2023. pic.twitter.com/hvIrepuL7s
- BJP Nagaland (@BJP4Nagaland) February 24, 2023
#ElectionsWithNDTV | Last day of campaigning in Nagaland today pic.twitter.com/0rMfqf2nsr
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 25, 2023
#ElectionsWithNDTV | "For BJP, biggest identity is being a nationalist": Nagaland BJP chief to NDTV pic.twitter.com/U3CfHSbqjs
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 25, 2023
Meghalaya Border With Assam, Bangladesh Sealed Till Counting Day Ahead Of Polls
Meghalaya Elections: Exit Polls Banned, Silence Period From 4 pm TomorrowHon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri @narendramodi ji's road show at Shillong, Meghalaya. The excitement and enthusiasm with which the people of Meghalaya are waiting for their beloved PM is palpable. #ModiInMeghalaya. https://t.co/UOJemzEqXg
- BJP Meghalaya (@BJP4Meghalaya) February 24, 2023
Watch: PM Modi's roadshow in Meghalaya's Shillong #ElectionsWithNDTV pic.twitter.com/9Ijv5H3YqY
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 24, 2023
Lok Sabha MP @MahuaMoitra states-
- AITC Meghalaya (@AITC4Meghalaya) February 24, 2023
"@INCIndia has failed spectacularly in defeating the BJP!"#TMC, with its legacy of DEFEATING THE BJP is determined to raise people's concerns and fight for their rights.
Hence, @RahulGandhi's contemptible
remarks fall flat! pic.twitter.com/Pgw0mx9qxP
HUGE SUPPORT!
- AITC Meghalaya (@AITC4Meghalaya) February 24, 2023
Dr. @mukulsangma's PUBLIC MEETINGS in West Garo Hills and South Garo Hills witnessed huge crowd.
To ensure the betterment of our people, we shall strive tirelessly.
For Meghalaya's brighter future-
✅Vote for the twin flowers
🗓27th February 2023#VoteForTMC pic.twitter.com/swrlzwMo8y
Real governance takes place when the intent to serve is in place, which wasn't there in these 5 years & that's why teachers have been deprived of salaries.
- Meghalaya Congress (@INCMeghalaya) February 24, 2023
As highlighted by @INCIndia National Spokesperson @DrShamaMohd, Congress will ease the burden of inflation on our people. pic.twitter.com/oSPKT1UMkA
After many decades, there was no incident of violence during Assembly elections in Tripura as there is a BJP government in the state: PM Narendra Modi in Dimapur, Nagaland pic.twitter.com/v4IFdhy5C4
- ANI (@ANI) February 24, 2023
WATCH: PM Modi's praise for Nagaland BJP leader Temjen Imna Along's social media posts pic.twitter.com/fYIuiAPT5J
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 24, 2023
BJP's mantra for Nagaland is "peace, progress and prosperity," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a rally ahead of assembly elections in the state. "You can't run a country by distrusting your own people. A country is run by respecting your own people. Earlier, there was politics of division here. We changed it to divine politics," he said.
Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio felicitates PM Narendra Modi ahead of his public address, in Dimapur pic.twitter.com/fIs2IxvzRQ
- ANI (@ANI) February 24, 2023
#ElectionsWithNDTV | "Food Habit A State Subject Not Centre's Subject": Meghalaya BJP Chief On Eating Beef pic.twitter.com/6fNp4lHPcI
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 24, 2023
Religious profiling of Christians in neighbouring Assam is a dangerous precedence. What guarantee is there that it will not happen in Meghalaya and other Christian states ? @drshamamohd #CongressForMeghalaya #5StarMeghalaya pic.twitter.com/BMeFr74pmf
- Meghalaya Congress (@INCMeghalaya) February 23, 2023
You are invited to PM Modi's roadshow for a prosperous and empowered Meghalaya!#StrongerBJPStrongerMeghalaya pic.twitter.com/PTDEG9YFo6
- BJP Meghalaya (@BJP4Meghalaya) February 23, 2023
PM Modi To Hold Roadshow In Poll-Bound Meghalaya TodayAfter the roadshow here, the Prime Minister will fly to Tura in West Garo Hills district in the afternoon where he will address a rally at the BCCI-funded Alotgre stadium.
"Nagaland Will Create History By Electing Women MLAs": Himanta Sarma https://t.co/WcWFp29bVF pic.twitter.com/ws3IreGqmo
- NDTV News feed (@ndtvfeed) February 23, 2023
Meghalaya Assembly Elections: Chief Minister Sangma Calls Upon Trinamool Supporters To Vote For His PartyMeghalaya Chief Minister and National People's Party supremo Conrad K Sangma on Thursday claimed that the NPP is set to form the next government in the state and called upon opposition Trinamool Congress supporters to vote for his party.
Addressed an election meeting for NDPP candidate Smt Salhoutuonuo Kruse in Western Angami LAC, Nagaland in presence of Hon'ble CM Shri @Neiphiu_Rio.
- Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) February 23, 2023
I appeal to the electorate to vote for BJP-NDPP candidates to help maintain the current growth momentum in the State. pic.twitter.com/XTEaa95dHy
AICC National Spokesperson @DrShamaMohd will be in Meghalaya today to address a press conference at Congress Bhavan, Shillong.
- Meghalaya Congress (@INCMeghalaya) February 23, 2023
A very warm welcome to our leader on our homeland!#5StarMeghalaya @INCIndia pic.twitter.com/9yAPoUYD6g
Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor has said the solution to the Naga peace talks was long overdue, and that his party wants to see it resolved. "Nagas deserve better than this kind of deception, corruption, dishonesty and inefficiency," he said.
Watch | BJP's Bernard Marak, Accused Of Running Sex Racket, To Take On Conrad Sangma
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 21, 2023
NDTV's Ratnadip choudhury reports pic.twitter.com/wYx9WaLaGP
Thousands gather at Dangar village of 25-Mawsynram constituency along with their candidate Shri @ShangpliangHM to welcome 19-South Shillong candidate Shri @SanborShullai as he appeals to the people to support their candidate for development #StrongerBJPStrongerMeghalaya pic.twitter.com/fbuNSyDJXl
- BJP Meghalaya (@BJP4Meghalaya) February 23, 2023
In Meghalaya, Richest Candidate Has Assets Over Rs 146 Crore: ReportThe assets of Meghalaya assembly speaker Metbah Lyngdoh, the richest candidate to fight the assembly elections, increased by 68 per cent to Rs 146.31 crore in the last five years, according to a report.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today alleged that the BJP was like a "class bully" that respects no one, as it thinks that it knows everything.
Responding to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's charge that the ruling NDPP-BJP alliance looted Nagaland for 20 years, Nalin Kohli, the party's national spokesperson and the poll in-charge of the Northeast state hit back at him on Wednesday saying that the ruling alliance has only been in power in the state for five years.
In a veiled attack on the BJP at an election rally in Meghalaya, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her party will not allow people coming from outside to impose CAA and NRC on residents of the northeastern state.
She accused the Conrad Sangma government in the state of not undertaking development work and being involved in various scandals.
The community's support gives us faith to triumph in the coming days & we are moving forward with great hope.
- Conrad K Sangma (@SangmaConrad) February 21, 2023
Grateful to the people of Upper Matchikol & South Tura Constituency for showing the NPP so much love. We are because of them & we will continue to serve them. pic.twitter.com/AJPsfCKGTg
Accusing the BJP-led central government of cheating the people of Nagaland on the Naga political problem, the Congress on Tuesday asserted that given a chance, it will fulfil the aspirations of the citizens of the northeastern state.
"The Narendra Modi government does not have the political will to put into effect the agreed solutions to the Naga political issue and has cheated the people of Nagaland and the country as well," he said.
Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Tuesday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for "indulging in political manoeuvring for staying in power" stating that he is confident that the people of Meghalaya can see through this and will use their wisdom to vote on February 27.
"I am absolutely sure that our candidates, manifesto, the way the Congress party has campaigned...We may not have the resources to match the BJP for example, but we have the people's willingness, support and blessings of our voters. So, I think we will do very well and the next Government that will be formed will be a Congress Government and in other states also we are doing very well," said the Congress leader.
Two persons were kidnapped from the residence of a Naga People's Front (NPF) candidate and a vehicle was set on fire in Mon district of poll-bound Nagaland, a top police officer said on Tuesday. One person was later released by the kidnappers while an operation was on to rescue the other, he said. "There was an incident of two persons being taken away from the residence of the Naga Peoples Front (NPF) candidate from Tizit assembly constituency last night," Mon superintendent of police T Uniel Kichu told PTI. The two persons were not party members but were staying at the residence of the NPF candidate.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah today asserted that Naga peace talks are underway and hoped that the initiative taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring lasting peace in the northeastern state will bear fruit. Addressing an election rally in Tuensang, Mr Shah said there are some issues related to development and rights of eastern Nagaland and those will be addressed after the assembly elections.
