Kohima, March 13 : The AICC has already cleared the name of former Lok Sabha member K. Asungba Sangtam for the April 16 parliamentary polls, according to Nagaland PCC president K.V. Pusa.
Pusa today said though the party high command had cleared Sangtam’s name for the lone Nagaland Lok Sabha seat, the party would confirm it on Monday.
“We will officially declare his name only on March 16,” he told this correspondent.
The ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government has cleared the name of C.M. Chang of the Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) as its consensus candidate.
W. Wangyuh Konyak of the Congress is the sitting MP.
Byelections to Tizit, Tuensang Sadar-II, Chizami and Dimapur-III Assembly seats will also be held on April 16.
All the four seats fell vacant following the resignation of four Congress MLAs who joined the NPF, the main constituent of the DAN government.
Konyak said he would contest the byelections from the Tizit seat and had applied for a Congress ticket.
Byelection to the Tizit Assembly seat has been necessitated following the resignation of Congress MLA Aloh Konyak to join the NPF.
Pusa said the former finance minister, K. Therie, who had lost to a newcomer in the last Assembly elections, would contest Chizami constituency as a Congress candidate.
“We have received many applications for the byelections,” he said, adding that the party would give a tough fight in the parliamentary as well as in the Assembly byelections.
Pusa said the mandate of the people would go for the Congress as corruption had reached its zenith.
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