Nagaland will be voting to elect a new 60-member Assembly on February 27.
Nagaland will be voting to elect a new 60-member Assembly on Monday. The 2023 elections come amid the process to find a solution for the Naga political issue, which led to Nagaland becoming virtually Opposition-less in 2021.
Following are facts from the Association for Democratic Reforms report:
- Ahead of the polls, 116 candidates have declared assets of over Rs 1 crore, two more than in the previous polls. With 52 of their candidates declaring assets of over Rs 1 crore, 87 per cent of NDPP-BJP candidates are crorepatis.
- The average assets per candidate in the 2023 polls is Rs 5.13 crores. In the 2018 polls, average assets per candidate was Rs 3.76 crores.
- With assets of over Rs 160 crore, Dr Sukhato A Sema, who is contesting from Pughoboto on a Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) ticket, is the richest candidate in this election.
- Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio is the second richest candidate, with assets of over Rs 46 crore.
- Congress candidate T Ngampai Konyak, who is contesting from Phomching, has declared assets of only Rs 5,251 - the lowest among all contestants.
- This year, 53 candidates are re-contesting the elections, with 36 of them belonging to the NDPP-BJP alliance.
- In the last five years, the average assets of these 53 candidates grew by 30 per cent to reach Rs 7.10 crore.
- The assets of NDPP candidate from Tamlu, BS Nganlang Phom, rose from Rs 21.91 lakhs in 2018 to Rs 15.05 crore in 2023 - a whopping 6,870 per cent hike.
- Seven out of the 184 candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. In 2018, only three out of the 193 candidates had declared criminal cases against themselves.
- Only four women candidates are contesting the upcoming election - two from the NDPP, one each from the BJP and Congress. In 2018, five out of the 193 candidates were women. Interestingly, Nagaland has not had a woman MLA since its inception in 1963.
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