Mokokchung, February 3 (MTNews): After being denied a party ticket for the upcoming elections, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) working president and former chief secretary Alemtemshi Jamir tendered his resignation from the party on Thursday.
In a letter addressed to President of NDPP, Alemtemshi said that despite having made contributions to establishing NDPP as a regional political party in Nagaland, all these were disregarded when the party denied him a ticket to contest the forthcoming election.
“’Also, my contributions in establishing the NDPP as a regional political party in Nagaland has been disregarded and I have been denied a party ticket in the current elections. All this goes on to show how the party has denigrated to mere material, power, and political considerations and devoid of democratic discussions and values,” he wrote.
“Therefore, I hereby tender my resignation as the Working President as well as from active and primary membership of the NDPP, with immediate effect,” he added.
However, he said he will be contesting the election although it has not been announced which party he will contest from.
Speaking about whether his seat had something to do with the seat-sharing with BJP, he said his constituency was not involved with it. “It was pure NDPP. It was given to a non-member.”
Mention may be made here that the NDPP has fielded Imkongmar, a first timer, to contest the 25-Mongoya assembly constituency where Alemtemshi Jamir unsuccessfully contested in 2018 on NDPP ticket.