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Nagaland election: NPF's Kuzholuzo Nienu wins from Phek seat by 48 votes
Kuzholuzo Nienu is among four sitting MLAs from NPF and is also the leader of the party in the state assembly.
Naga People's Front (NPF) candidate Kuzholuzo Nienu has defeated NDPP's Kupota Khesoh with a marginal number of votes from Phek constituency. Nienu has won four consecutive elections from this seat starting 2003.
Nienu got a total of 9,485 votes and Khesoh received 9,437 votes.
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Nienu is among four sitting MLAs from NPF and is also the leader of the party in the state assembly. Under the TR Zeliang administration, Nienu held ministerial portfilio.
Ahead of the election, the NPF leader said he is ready for post-poll alliance with any political party to bring solution to the long-standing political issue in the state. He also acknowledged that Nagas cannot go on without the solution to the political issue.
NPF is contesting against the NDPP-BJP coalition in more than 40 seats. After being the single largest party in the 2018 assembly election, NPF lost 21 of its MLAs to the ruling NDPP last year.
In the 2018 polls, the NPF won 26 out of 60 seats. The current strength of NPF in the state assembly is four. Twenty-one MLAs, led by party legislature leader and former chief minister TR Zeliang, defected to the NDPP last year.
