Assembly Election 2023 Dates Live: Hello and welcome to ABP Live to get the updates from the Election Commission of India (ECI) press conference. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar will announce the poll schedule for Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya legislative assemblies. “Press Conference by Election Commission of India to announce the Schedule of General Elections to Legislative Assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya & Tripura- 2023,” an EC press note on Wednesday, January 18, mentioned.
The term of assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya, and Tripura is ending on March 12, March 15, and March 22, respectively.
While Tripura is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the other two states, the BJP is part of the ruling coalition. In Nagaland, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party is in power. National People’s Party, the only party from the Northeast to have national party recognition, runs the government in Meghalaya.
Tripura Legislative Assembly Election
- Four-cornered fight expected between BJP, Congress, Left, and Trinamool Congress
- BJP has changed the CM face to beat anti-incumbency
- In 2018, BJP won 35 seats and unseated the 20-year incumbent CM, Manik Sarkar of CPI(M)
Meghalaya Legislative Assembly Election
- Congress emerged as the largest party in the 2018 assembly election with 21 seats
- BJP teamed up with the National People’s Party to form the government, with Conrad Sangma as CM
Nagaland Legislative Assembly Election
- Demand for a separate state ‘Frontier Nagaland’ by tribal groups may play a crucial role in the election
- Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP)-BJP alliance in power
- In 2018, NPF emerged as the single largest party but the NDPP-BJP alliance formed a government with support from other parties.
