Dimapur, Jan. 4 (EMN): The newly registered Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party(NDPP) on January 4 clarified that the earlier news report of its working president Alemtemshi Jamir being poised as its chief ministerial candidate was not yet an official decision of the party but however it decided today to formally ask him to take up the mantle.
"The CEB of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party at its sitting on the 4th of January 2018 reviewed the news item that had been spread over the social media and the Press about Shri Alemtemshi Jamir, Working President, being the Chief Ministerial Candidate of the Party. It was clarified that the news was not an official news item of the NDPP Party," stated the press release.
The party however decided at today's meeting that Jamir will be asked to take up the responsibility since the former chief minister Neiphiu Rio had dissociated from the party.
"The matter of leading and co-ordinating the matters of the Party, after Shri Neiphiu Rio had disassociated from the NDPP, had been placed before the CEB and it was decided that Shri Alemtemshi would be asked to take up this responsibility in the party," it added.
