NCP to contest 5 seats in Mizoram Assembly election

Press Trust of India  |  Aizawl 

would contest five of the 40 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the forthcoming election to be held on November 28.

Chhangte will be in on Monday to receive the approval of the names of candidates from the after which the names would be announced, he said.

He said that out of respect for the appeals made by the NGO Coordination Committee, a conglomerate of all major groups and student organisations in Mizoram, the NCP has not arrived at any decision about fielding nominees from two seats - West Tuipui and Tuichawng - in areas.

The had appealed to political parties not to put up candidates from the Chakma community from these two specific seats.

The NCP would contest from the two seats only if other parties field candidates belonging to the Chakma community, he said.

He expressed hope that the NCP has chances of winning the election from at least and seats, where the party candidates had bagged 2,467 votes and 2,368 votes respectively in the 2013 assembly polls.

The NCP, which has been contesting Assembly polls in since 2003, had not won a single seat in 2013 assembly poll.

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First Published: Thu, October 18 2018. 14:10 IST