Before the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, a former BJP member and leader of the NDPP has joined the Congress
In front of the party’s state chairman, S Supongmeren Jamir, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party leader James Kuotsu and former BJP leader Kidongam Panmei joined the Congress on Thursday, dealing a blow to the governing coalition in the state ahead of the impending Lok Sabha Elections of 2024.
“Kidongam Panmei, former executive member of the Ex-Service Cell and former General Secretary of the ST Morcha of the BJP state unit, and James Kuotsu, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) leader, formally joined the Congress today in the presence of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee president S Supongmeren Jamir,” according to a press release released by the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday.
“Both the leaders stated that they had voluntarily decided to join the Congress party in order to strengthen our leader Rahul Gandhi’s Pan India Movement for safeguarding the Secular and democratic Principles in the Nation, which is at present under great threat from the PM Modi-led BJP government,” said the statement.
“The NPCC warmly welcomes the new entrants into the party fold and wishes them well as they embark upon a new chapter in their political journey under the Progressive and Secular ideals of the Indian National Congress,” it said.
On April 19, 2024, votes will be cast for Nagaland’s only parliamentary seat in the Lok Sabha Elections. June 4 has been set aside for the vote count.
While the Naga Peoples Front (NPF) was victorious in the 2014 elections, the governing Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) became victorious in the state’s 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.
