NDPP set to win 58-Shamator-Chessore bye-election uncontested

Our Reporter
Dimapur, Oct. 8 (EMN): The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) consensus candidate, S Keoshu Yimchunger, who contested the bye-election to the 58-Shamator-Chessore (ST) Assembly Constituency (AC) on Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) ticket, is set to win uncontested as he was the lone candidate to file the nomination papers when the deadline ended on Friday.

B Henok Buchem, Additional Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer (RO) of 58-Shamator-Chessore (ST) AC informed Eastern Mirror that no other party or independent candidate had filed nominations to contest the bye-election except the NDPP candidate.

However, the final result will be out only after the nomination papers are scrutinised October 11 and subsequent of withdrawal of candidatures on October 13, as per the notification of the Election Commission of India.

The bye-election to the 58-Shamator-Chessore (ST) AC was supposed to be held on October 30 and the counting of votes on November 2. The seat fell vacant after the demise of NDPP legislator Toshi Wungtung in July this year.

The UDA on Thursday declared Yimchunger as its consensus candidate for the bye-election.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nagaland unit had earlier said that it would “stand by” its pre-poll ally NDPP by supporting its candidate. The Naga People’s Front (NPF), which is part of the UDA government, also said that it had decided not to contest the bye-poll.

Other political parties like the Congress, NPP, JD(U) and the recently formed Rising People’s Party (RPP) also failed to file nomination papers for the bye-election, paving the way for the NDPP to win unopposed.