Mokokchung, February 6 (MTNews): Ahead of the Nagaland assembly elections scheduled for 27 February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will campaign for the pre-poll allies Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and chief minister Neiphiu Rio’s Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), the CM said on Monday while speaking to media persons after filing his nomination papers.
CM Rio is contesting in his home constituency 11-Northern Angami-II and filed his nomination papers at Chiephobozou ADC headquarters. CM Rio said he has received information that PM Modi and HM Shah will visit the state either in the second or third week of this month ahead of the elections.