Dimapur, Dec. 11 (EMN): Following his resignation from the seat of NPF president, Neiphiu Rio – the present Lok Sabha member from Nagaland – has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking to withdraw a case he had filed on Aug. 17, 2017.
Rio, after his election as the party president, had written an application to the ECI seeking claim over the party’s symbol: a rooster.
On Dec. 7, Rio had resigned from the post of party president citing lack of trust in the present chief minister, while stating that the latter had engineered yet another signature campaign behind his back to remove him as the party’s president.
In an application addressed to the chief election commissioner of the ECI, which was dated Dec. 11, 2017, Rio informed the ECI of his resignation ‘taking into consideration the evolving political situations of the past few days in the state of Nagaland.’
Due to such circumstances, Rio asked that he ‘may be permitted to withdraw the case and an appropriate order be passed by the ECI in this regard’. The copy of the application, made available to the press on Monday, indicated that the letter has been received by the ECI.
Additional documents showed that Liezietsu as well as the lawyer representing Rio at the ECI have received separate copies informing them of the same.
